Abstract: A silica glass crucible 1 having &agr; of 0.05 or less over a thickness of 0.5 mm or more from the inner surface of the silica glass crucible, &agr; being obtained by dividing the fluorescent intensity integrated over a wavelength range of 4,000 cm−1 and 4,100 cm−1 by the fluorescent intensity integrated at a wavelength of 800 cm−1 where an SiO peak appears as determined by subjecting a section of the thickness of the silica glass crucible to laser Raman spectroscopy involving excitation by laser beam of 514 nm, and an OH group concentration of 100 ppm or less over the entire periphery beyond a thickness of at least 1.0 mm from the inner surface of the silica glass crucible.

Abstract: The invention is to offer such a carbon electrode of less consumption and a long useful life and a method of fabricating the same which prevents particles from falling from carbon electrodes into a melting quartz glass, checks occurrence of bubbles in the quartz glass, and avoids lowering of single crystallizing yield by bubbles existing in a transparent layer formed in the vicinity of an inside surface of a quartz glass crucible when lifting silicon single crystal by using the quartz glass crucible made by using the carbon electrodes. The carbon electrode to be used for melting quartz glass by an arc discharge, is characterized in that an electrode material is composed of carbon of bulk density being 1.80 g/cm3 or higher and a three-point bending strength being 35 MPa or higher.