Abstract: Transparent, essentially colorless and non-diffusing ?-quartz glass-ceramics and glass compositions for forming the same have a composition, free of arsenic oxide, antimony oxide and rare earth oxides except for inevitable trace amounts, which contains, expressed as percentages by weight of oxides 62-72% of SiO2, 20-23% of Al2O3, 2.8-5% of Li2O, 0.1-0.6% of SnO2, 1.9-4% of TiO2, 1.6-3% of ZrO2, less than 0.4% of MgO, 2.5-6% of ZnO and/or BaO and/or SrO, less than 250 ppm of Fe2O3; and their crystallites present in the ?-quartz solid solution have an average size of less than 35 nm. The glass-ceramics exhibit low thermal expansion and are easily obtained at an industrial scale.

Abstract: Transparent, essentially colorless and non-diffusing ?-quartz glass-ceramics and glass compositions for forming the same have a composition, free of arsenic oxide, antimony oxide and rare earth oxides except for inevitable trace amounts, which contains, expressed as percentages by weight of oxides 62-72% of SiO2, 20-23% of Al2O3, 2.8-5% of Li2O, 0.1-0.6% of SnO2, 1.9-4% of TiO2, 1.6-3% of ZrO2, less than 0.4% of MgO, 2.5-6% of ZnO and/or BaO and/or SrO, less than 250 ppm of Fe2O3; and their crystallites present in the ?-quartz solid solution have an average size of less than 35 nm. The glass-ceramics exhibit low thermal expansion and are easily obtained at an industrial scale.

Abstract: Transparent ?-quartz glass-ceramics containing vanadium oxide. Such glass-ceramics have advantageous optical properties including good transmission in the infrared range, low transmission in the visible range, and significant transmission in the blue range for thicknesses of 3 mm. They can be used as materials for cooking top plates.

Abstract: Transparent ?-quartz glass-ceramics containing vanadium oxide. Such glass-ceramics have advantageous optical properties including good transmission in the infrared range, low transmission in the visible range, and significant transmission in the blue range for thicknesses of 3 mm. They can be used as materials for cooking top plates.

Abstract: Disclosed are plugging mixtures for forming a ceramic honeycomb wall flow filter. The plugging mixtures exhibit a reduced percentage of volumetric shrinkage during the drying process and generally comprise an inorganic ceramic powder batch composition; an organic binder; a liquid vehicle; and a non-foaming volume transformation agent. Also disclosed are methods for forming plugged ceramic wall flow filters from such plugging mixtures and honeycomb articles produced therefrom.