Abstract: A glass composition is disclosed that is useful as a solder glass for sealing components together. However, the glass is also especially adapted for use as an electric resistance film for coating the inner neck or funnel portions of a cathode ray tube to reduce arcing. The glass composition includes primarily the oxides of vanadium and phosphorous with the preferred addition of either zinc oxide or lead oxide. Still other metal oxides may be optionally included such as oxides of barium, antimony, lithium, manganese, silicon, boron, molybdenum and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: Sealing materials for making heat-resistant seals in electrical discharge devices comprise a rare earth oxide, such as lanthanum oxide, and boric oxide, preferably together with minor amounts of phosphorus pentoxide, aluminium oxide and magnesium oxide. Preferred compositions comprise 55 to 95% lanthanum or other oxide, 5 to 45% boric oxide and 0 to 5% phosphorus pentoxide, 0 to 5% aluminium oxide and 0 to 5% magnesium oxide. The compositions can be made by mixing the oxides, or appropriate salts, calcining the mixture at up to 1200.degree. C. and crushing it to a powder. They may be used as frits in a slurry or formed into pressed elements such as discs or washers. Sealing can be accomplished by heating the surfaces to be joined, together with the interposed sealing composition, to a temperature between 1100.degree. and 1650.degree. C.

Abstract: Alkali-Ta.sub.2 O.sub.5 -B.sub.2 O.sub.3 -P.sub.2 O.sub.5 glass compositions suitable for providing molded optical elements or the like, exhibiting glass transition temperatures below 500.degree. C., refractive index values (n.sub.d) above 1.523, and acceptable water durability are disclosed.

Abstract: A near infrared absorption filter for color television cameras, comprising(a) a base glass comprising, in % by weight based on the weight of the base glass, 50-78% P.sub.2 O.sub.5, 10-50% BaO, 0-7% Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, 0-6% B.sub.2 O.sub.3, 0-5% SiO.sub.2, 0-8% Li.sub.2 O, 0-15% Na.sub.2 O, 0-18% K.sub.2 O, 0-5% MgO, 0-10% CaO, 0-15% SrO, 0-10% ZnO, and 0-10% PbO, and(b) about 0.5 to about 2.5% by weight of CuO based on the weight of the base glass.