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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 1976
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1975
James E Flannery, Corning, NY (US);
Dale R Wexell, Corning, NY (US);
Corning Glass Works, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
The instant invention involves the production of articles exhibiting an internal microstructure and physical characteristics like those of glass-ceramic bodies but which can be formed spontaneously from a molten glass. Hence, in contrast to the production of conventional glass-ceramic articles, no heat treatment of a parent or precursor glass body is required to cause crystallization in situ to occur. More particularly, the instant invention is concerned with the manufacture of highly crystalline glass-ceramic articles, having compositions within the Li.sub.2 O-Na.sub.2 O-Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 -MgO-SiO.sub.2 -F system, wherein a fluormica constitutes the predominant crystal phase, which can be formed spontaneously from a molten glass batch.