Glass database
Collection of information about glass
A glass database is a collection of glass compositions, glass properties, glass models, associated trademark names, patents, etc. These data were collected from publications in scientific papers and patents, from personal communication with scientists and engineers, and other relevant sources.
History
Since the beginning of scientific glass research in the 19th century, thousands of glass property-composition datasets were published. The first attempt to summarize all those data systematically was the monograph Glastechnische Tabellen. World War II and the Cold War prevented similar efforts for many years afterwards.
In 1956, Phase Diagrams for Ceramists was published for the first time, containing a collection of phase diagrams. This database is known today as Phase Equilibria Diagrams.
in 1983, the Handbook of Glass Data was published, followed by the creation of the Japanese database Interglad in 1991. The Handbook of Glass Data was later digitized and substantially expanded under the name SciGlass. Currently, SciGlass contains properties of about 400,000 glass compositions, Interglad about 380,000, and Phase Equilibria Diagrams about 31,000.
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