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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 1977
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1976
Takashi Sakane, Otsu, JA;
Shigeharu Nakamura, Shiga, JA;
Nippon Electric Glass Company, Limited, Otsu, JA;
Abstract
A crystallized glass article formed of discrete small bodies of crystallizable glass fusion-bonded together at their interfaces is characterized in that a first layer extending from the article surface to a predetermined depth is non-porous, a predetermined thickness of second layer connected to and beneath the first layer being porous. Each of the small bodies in the first layer has needle-like .beta.-wollastonite crystals extending from the surface of the body to the interior thereof in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the body. Accordingly the article is characterized by a surface pattern defined by small bodies due to the differences of orientation of needle-like .beta.-wollastonite crystals and by a reduced specific gravity.