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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 01, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Christine C Wolcott, Horseheads, NY (US);
Assignee:
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03C / ; C03C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
501-3 ; 501 10 ; 501 57 ;
Abstract
A glass-ceramic biomaterial having high strength and toughness, a family of glasses from which the glass-ceramic biomaterial can be produced, and a method of production. The material has a primary crystal phase of F-canasite and a secondary crystal phase of F-apatite. The glass family is SiO.sub.2 --CaO--Na.sub.2 O--K.sub.2 O--P.sub.2 O.sub.5 --F. The method may be a single stage heat treatment, or a two stage involving an initial nucleation and a subsequent crystallization.