The Effect of Temperature on the Rate of Corrosion of Glass

JSGT 1918 V02 T260-T262  (3 pages)

Amongst the factors which influence the corrosion of liquids on glass, not the least important is the effect of temperature. Unless a glass be of very poor quality, it is but little affected, for example by cold water, although even this small attack may in special cases be of importance, notably in the proper storage of medicines and in some types of scientific glassware. But with rise, of temperature the action of water is accelerated in a marked manner, and at the boiling temperature may be pronounced.

J. D. Cauwood & W. E. S. Turner