The Influence of Ferrous Oxide Content on the Light Transmission of a Soda–Lime–Silica Glass

JSGT 1931 V15 T365-T372

In a series of earlier communications, we have recorded the results of measurements on the ultra-violet light transmission of some colourless bottle glasses and on types of glasses specially manufactured for the purpose of light transmission in the ultra-violet region. The second investigation led to a further one, in which a special series of pure synthetic glasses containing ferric oxide in amounts ranging from 0 to 1% was prepared and investigated. It was then announced that a similar series of glasses containing ferrous oxide was under preparation and investigation. The work was, however, interrupted by the removal of one of us from Sheffield; but that part of the study already then finished was referred to in a communication by one of us early in 1929, in which a comparison was made of the limit of transmission in the ultra-violet of glasses containing the same amounts of ferric and ferrous oxide, respectively. Towards the end of 1930 the opportunity was found of completing the work, and a full account is now recorded.

Links to 1928 JSGT papers T027, T307 and T325 and 1931 Glastech. Ber.

David Starkie& W. E. S. Turner