Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Kozo Saita

Jiro Chiba

Yoshinori Kokubu

A process for producing a porous glass which comprises forming a shaped product of borosilicate glass having a predetermined shape, heat-treating the shaped product for phase separation to form a silica rich insoluble phase and an alkali and boric oxide rich soluble phase, leaching out the soluble phase from the insoluble phase with an acid or an alkali to obtain a porous glass, wherein said shaped product of borosilicate glass is composed essentially of from 45 to 67% by weight of SiO.sub.2, from 0.5 to 10% by weight of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, from 10 to 30% by weight of B.sub.2 O.sub.3, from 0.5 to 8% by weight of Na.sub.2 O, from 0.1 to 8% by weight of K.sub.2 O+Li.sub.2 O+Cs.sub.2 O, from 0.5 to 7% by weight of CaO, from 0.5 to 15% by weight of MgO+BaO+SrO, from 0 to 10% by weight of ZrO.sub.2 +TiO.sub.2 and from 0.03 to 3% by weight of F+SO.sub.3 +Cl+As.sub.2 O.sub.3 +Sb.sub.2 O.sub.3.

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