Abstract: A hot-formed, chemically prestressable glass article having a low percentage of crystals or crystallites, in particular a plate-shaped, chemically prestressable glass article, as well as to a method and a device for its production are provided. The glass article has a composition including the components SiO2, Al2O3, and Li2O and a content of seed formers (ZrO2, SnO2, and TiO2) of at least 0.8 wt %, as well as at most ten crystals, including crystallites, per kilogram of glass, which have a maximum diameter greater than 1 ?m and up to at most 5 ?m.

Abstract: A hot-formed, chemically prestressable glass article having a low percentage of crystals or crystallites, in particular a plate-shaped, chemically prestressable glass article, as well as to a method and a device for its production are provided. The glass article has a composition including the components SiO2, Al2O3, and Li2O and a content of seed formers (ZrO2, SnO2, and TiO2) of at least 0.8 wt %, as well as at most ten crystals, including crystallites, per kilogram of glass, which have a maximum diameter greater than 1 ?m and up to at most 5 ?m.

Abstract: A glass tube for pharmaceutical containers and a manufacturing process for a glass tube are provided. The glass tubes are characterized by a homogenous and low alkali leachability on the inner surface.

Abstract: A lithium aluminum silicate glass ceramic, which, apart from unavoidable impurities, is As2O3-free and Sb2O3-free. The lithium aluminum silicate glass ceramic has keatite as primary crystal phase and a keatite peak temperature TP of the keatite solid solution formation in the range of 980° C. to 1090° C., and the keatite peak temperature TP is determined by dynamic differential calorimetry (DSC) in accordance with DIN 51007:2019-04 at a heating rate of 5 K/min. A ceramization method is also described.

Abstract: A glass has a transmittance at a wavelength of 220 nm of at least 30% and a transmittance at a wavelength of 200 nm of less than 4.0%, the glass having a total platinum content of less than 3.5 ppm. A device and a sterilizer include a light source configured to output ultraviolet light and a lamp cover covering the light source and including the glass.

Abstract: A glass has a transmission throughout a wavelength range of from 207 nm to 222 nm of at least 60%, measured at a thickness of 1 mm. The glass is a borosilicate glass having a total platinum content of not more than 3.5 ppm, and a hydrolytic resistance characterized by an extracted Na2O equivalent in ?g per g glass determined according to ISO 719 of not more than 250 ?g/g.

Abstract: A glass article is composed of a glass having a demixing factor in respect of its hydrolytic resistance in a range from 0.10 to 1.65.

Abstract: Chemically toughened glass is provided that has a depth of compressive stress for potassium of at least 4 ?m and at most 8 ?m; a compressive stress at a depth of 30 ?m due to sodium exchange of at most 200 MPa and a minimum amount of at least 90 MPa where the thickness is 0.5 mm, at least 100 MPa where the thickness is 0.55 mm, at least 110 MPa in where the thickness is 0.6 mm, at least 120 MPa where the thickness is 0.7 mm, and at least 140 MPa where the thickness is 1 mm; a ratio of sodium exchange depth, in ?m, to the thickness, in mm, that is greater than 0.130; and a normalized integral of tensile stress that is a storable tensile stress of at least 20.6 MPa and at most 30 MPa.

Abstract: A chemically toughened or chemically toughenable sheet-like glass article is provided. The glass article includes a glass with a composition having Al2O3, SiO2, Li2O, and B2O3. The glass and/or the glass article includes not more than 7 w t% of B2O3.

Abstract: A hot-formed, chemically prestressable glass article having a low percentage of crystals or crystallites, in particular a plate-shaped, chemically prestressable glass article, as well as to a method and a device for its production are provided. The glass article has a composition including the components SiO2, Al2O3, and Li2O and a content of seed formers (ZrO2, SnO2, and TiO2) of at least 0.8 wt %, as well as at most ten crystals, including crystallites, per kilogram of glass, which have a maximum diameter greater than 1 ?m and up to at most 5 ?m.

Abstract: Chemically toughened glass is provided that has a depth of compressive stress for potassium of at least 4 ?m and at most 8 ?m; a compressive stress at a depth of 30 ?m due to sodium exchange of at most 200 MPa and a minimum amount of at least 90 MPa where the thickness is 0.5 mm, at least 100 MPa where the thickness is 0.55 mm, at least 110 MPa in where the thickness is 0.6 mm, at least 120 MPa where the thickness is 0.7 mm, and at least 140 MPa where the thickness is 1 mm; a ratio of sodium exchange depth, in ?m, to the thickness, in mm, that is greater than 0.130; and a normalized integral of tensile stress that is a storable tensile stress of at least 20.6 MPa and at most 30 MPa.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for predisposition prediction of a subject to the development of cervical cancer and/or cancer precursors in an infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV) and/or for the detection of a persistent HPV infection, the method comprising the steps of obtaining a sample from the subject; and detecting at least one of the diagnostic markers or fragments thereof listed in Table 1 in the sample obtained from the subject.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for predisposition prediction of a subject to the development of cervical cancer and/or cancer precursors in an infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV) and/or for the detection of a persistent HPV infection, the method comprising the steps of obtaining a sample from the subject; and detecting at least one of the diagnostic markers or fragments thereof listed in Table 1 in the sample obtained from the subject.