Abstract: Fireproofing glasses containing gels free from organic gel formers are characterized in that they have been prepared with gel formers which containa) acidic aluminium phosphates andb) reaction products of boric acid with alkanolamines,a) and b) being present in a weight ratio of 100:55 to 100:0.5, calculated as solids.

Abstract: The method of electrochemical determination of oxygen partial pressure in ionic melts includes providing a metal/metal oxide reference electrode consisting of an electrode body made of a metal selected from the group consisting of Mo, W, Hf, Nb and Ta and alloys thereof and a layer of an oxide of that metal on the electrode body; immersing a pure platinum electrode and the metal/metal oxide reference electrode in a glass melt; measuring a potential across the metal/metal oxide reference electrode and the pure platinum electrode immersed in the glass melt to obtain a measured potential characteristic of the oxygen partial pressure in the glass melt; obtaining a calibration curve relating the potential across said reference electrode and the pure platinum electrode to the oxygen partial pressure in the glass melt as a function of temperature; and obtaining the oxygen partial pressure in the glass melt from the measured potential and the calibration curve.

Abstract: There is described a porous body for the storage and regulated release of vaporizable substances, which consists of open-pored sintered glass. The body preferably has a pore volume of from 30% to 85% and a mean pore size of from 10 to 350 .mu.m. The body is inert to the stored substances, has a very high storage volume and releases the stored substances very uniformly, and in particular, with no chromatography effects occurring.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plate of glass ceramic suitable as component of a cooking appliance with at least one region of the one-piece plate deviating from the main plane of the plate.

Abstract: Fireproofing gels based on amine salts of acid phosphates are characterised in that they comprise an aluminium component, a phosphorus component, an amine component and if appropriate water in proportions such that, at 5 to 30.degree. C. for more than 24 hours, they form a mixture which is capable of flow, and on heating to temperatures above 45.degree. C. they change into a transparent gel in less than 24 hours. In addition to other uses, such fireproofing gels are particularly suitable for the production of laminated glass constructions having a-fire protection action.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process for manufacturing natural stone-type panel-shaped construction and decoration materials of high strength for facing facades, walls and floors in indoor and outdoor areas, consisting of stacked individual layers of crushed glass, charge materials, in particular sand, and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: The gas cooking assembly of the invention includes at least one gas-fired burner which has a burner chamber and a burner plate, especially a burner plate made of fiber material, the gas-fired burner being arranged below a continuous cooking plate made of a material conductive to heat radiation such as a glass ceramic, glass, ceramic or the like material. Control units are provided for metering gas as well as conventional ignition units, safety units and temperature-monitoring units. Exhaust-gas channels conduct away combustion gases. A blower brings additional air to the burner plate. The blower and control unit are located in a partitioned-off space wherein an overpressure is maintained by the blower. The partitioned-off space is connected via pipes to the burner chamber and to the ambient. The pipes are gas tight at their peripheral surfaces in the region outside of said partitioned-off space.

Abstract: In a process for fining oxide melts, comprising fining an oxide melt with gas generated electrochemically in situ in the oxide melt, oxygen is generated in situ electrolytically as the fining gas. Alternating, as well as direct, voltage may be employed.

Abstract: A process and a device for coating the inner surface of a greatly arched, essentially dome-shaped substrate by CVD are described. In the process, the reaction gases, which contain the layer-former molecules, are conveyed into the reaction chamber containing the substrate(s) to be coated, through at least one gas inlet, placed facing the vertex of the dome at a distance from the surface to be coated. Deposition of the layer material on the substrate is brought about in a way known in the art by producing a reaction zone on the inner surface of the substrate to be coated. According to the invention, the reaction gases do not, as is usual for known processes, flow slowly into the reaction chamber. Instead, for production of a uniform coating, the reaction gases are introduced into the reaction chamber at a high speed such that the product of Reynolds number, R, of the gas jet in or in the immediate vicinity of the gas inlet and the distance, h, between the gas inlet and the dome vertex is:400<R.times.

Abstract: For removing halo formation, which often occurs on glass-ceramic articles decorated with a ceramic color, a layer of SiO.sub.2 is applied to the glass-ceramic article after the glass-ceramic color has been burnt-in. The layer is preferably 40-200 nm thick. The layer can contain up to 66.5% by weight of oxides, which change the refractive index so that the layer is invisible, the layer being, for example, 85-93% by weight of SiO.sub.2 and 7-15% by weight of TiO.sub.2.

Abstract: A process and apparatus are described for the production of a filter in the form of a ceramic honeycomb body monolith, starting with a blank of the honeycomb body monolith with the bilaterally open ducts. An image-recording and processing system scans the end faces of the monolith and determines the deviations of the actual geometry of the ducts to be alternatingly sealed from the geometry of an idealized honeycomb body. The image-processing system determines zones on the respective end face of the monolith which correspond, within predeterminable tolerances, to the geometry of the idealized honeycomb body, wherein zones are determined having a maximally high number of ducts. In correspondence with the determination of the aforementioned zones, a processing route is established which predetermines which one of several metering heads with a varying number of nozzles will be activated. The nozzles then inject a plugging compound into the thus-determined ducts.

Abstract: A process for coating the inner surface of a greatly arched, essentially dome-shaped substrate by CVD is described wherein reaction gases, which contain layer-former molecules, are conveyed into a reaction chamber containing the substrate(s) to be coated. The reaction gases are conveyed through at least one gas inlet, placed facing the vertex of the dome at a distance from the surface to be coated. Deposition of the layer material on the substrate is brought about by producing a reaction zone on the inner surface of the substrate to be coated. The reaction gases do not, as is usual for known processes, flow slowly into the reaction chamber. Instead, for production of a uniform coating, the reaction gases are introduced at a high speed such that the product of Reynolds number, R, of the gas jet in or in the immediate vicinity of the gas inlet and the distance, h, between the gas inlet and the dome vertex is 400<R.times.h[mm]<4000.

Abstract: Process for the production of decorative glass ceramic articles, the design being sunk entirely or partially into the surface of the glass ceramic, wherein the surface, to be decorated, of the not-yet ceramed base glass is connected as the anode of the region of its glass transition temperature Tg up to Tg+100.degree. C. and a current is allowed to flow evoking an alteration of the surface of the base glass, and wherein the current is permitted to flow until the surface has been altered to a desired depth.

Abstract: An apparatus supplies CVD coating devices with coating gas and includes an intermediate reservoir for accommodation of the gaseous coating material arranged between a storage tank and a coating device. The volume of the reservoir is set to a predetermined, maximum pressure change in the intermediate reservoir upon withdrawal of the mass of gas required for a coating step. The intermediate reservoir can be connected to a gas recovery station.

Abstract: An optical waveguide is disclosed with a substantially planar substrate and a waveguide layer applied to the substrate. The invention resides in that the substrate consists of a synthetic resin or of a material having a high organic proportion. This has the advantage that the high index of refraction of the inorganic waveguide layer is combined with the material properties of the synthetic resin substrate, such as, for example, breaking resistance, plastic and thermoplastic moldability, photochemical structuring ability, and others.

Abstract: A highly chemically resistant borosilicate glass which is capable of forming a seal with tungsten and has a glass transition temperature T.sub.g >570.degree. C., a coefficient of thermal expansion of between 3.95 and 4.5.times.10.sup.-6 K.sup.-1, a hydrolytic resistance in accordance with DIN 12111 in class one and a TK.sub.100 value in accordance with DIN 52326 of at least 240.degree. C. is described which has the composition (in % by weight, based on oxide) of SiO.sub.2 70 to 78, B.sub.2 O.sub.3 9 to 12, Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 1.5 to 4, Li.sub.2 O 0 to 4, Na.sub.2 O 1 to 5, K.sub.2 O 1 to 5, total of alkali metal oxides 5 to 7, MgO 0 to 3, CaO 1 to 3, BaO 0 to 2, ZnO 0 to 2, ZrO.sub.2 0.5 to 3, total of MgO+CaO+BaO+ZnO+ZrO.sub.2 6 to 10, and optionally conventional refining agents. It is preferred that the K.sub.2 O:Na.sub.2 O ratio be greater than 1 and that alkaline earth metal oxides, except for CaO, be omitted.

Abstract: A mounting (1) for quartz-oscillator discs (2) is described, which mounting exhibits a base plate, two current feed-through pins (4a, b), which are fastened in an insulated manner in the base plate, and a central contact pin (15). Within the base plate (20) there is provided a receiving groove (25) for the quartz-oscillator disc (2), which is fastened to the mounting only at the two fastening points (31 and 32). The receiving sections (7a, 7b) of the lugs (6a, 6b) respectively exhibit a slot (8a, b), which extends far enough downwards that the quartz-oscillator disc no longer touches the lug (6a, 6b) in the lower section of the slot. In addition, the lug can exhibit a recess (40), which forms in the vertical direction an additional spring element.

Abstract: A transparent or translucent inorganic material, especially a glass-ceramic and/or composite material, is provided with a low average thermal longitudinal expansion coefficient, .alpha., of from -1.times.10.sup.-6 K.sup.-1 to +2.times.10.sup.-6 K.sup.-1 in the temperature range of -50.degree.-700.degree. C., with the following composition (in weight percent):Li.sub.2 O, 2.5-6.0; Na.sub.2 O, 0-4.0; K.sub.2 O, 0-4.0; Na.sub.2 O+K.sub.2 O, 0.2-4.0; MgO, 0-3.0; ZnO, 0-3.0; BaO, 0-3.5; CaO, 0-1.0; SrO, 0-1.0; Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, 18-28; SiO.sub.2, 50-70; TiO.sub.2, 1.0-7.0; ZrO.sub.2, 0-3.5; TiO.sub.2 +ZrO.sub.2, 1.0-7.0; and P.sub.2 O.sub.5, 0-8.0,optionally with coloring components (in weight percent):V.sub.2 O.sub.5, 0-2.0; Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3, 0-2.0; MnO, 0-2.0; Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3, 0-2.0; CoO, 0-2.0; and NiO, 0-2.0,optionally, conventional refining agents, such as As.sub.2 O.sub.3, Sb.sub.2 O.sub.3, NaCl, and Ce.sub.2 O.sub.

Abstract: Lead- and barium-free crystal glass for the production of high-quality glasses and domestic articles, having high optical transmission, a refractive index n.sub.D of greater than 1.52, a density of at least 2.45 g/cm.sup.3, high hydrolytic resistance, good solarization resistance, and a K.sub.2 O+ZnO content of greater than 10% by weight, the glass system being based on an alkali-lime-silicate glass containing TiO.sub.2, ZrO.sub.2, Nb.sub.2 O.sub.3 and possibly Ta.sub.2 O.sub.5 and/or combinations thereof.

Abstract: A process for frontal, alternate sealing of ducts in a ceramic honeycomb monolith includes temporarily sealing some ducts with a first, hardenable viscous composition; permanently sealing the then still vacant duct openings with a second hardenable, viscous composition. The first composition is removed during the course of hardening the second composition. The ceramic honeycomb monolith is for exhaust gas cleaning systems of internal combustion engines.