Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Jena Glass and Its Scientific and Industrial Applications
Tms book is mainly devoted to an account of the physical and chemical properties of the various types of glass which have up to the present been produced at the Jena Glass-making Laboratory, and to an indication of their scientific and industrial applications. The experimental and theoretical investigations relating to these glasses which are scattered through various journals, or have been published as separate monographs, are so numerous that a comprehensive summary of them has for some time been urgently needed.
When I undertook this task, I had no intention of limiting its scope to the Jena glasses. But the' number of published investigations relating to other glasses admitting of definite identification is so small that, though they have received the same treatment, they form only an insignificant fraction of the whole.
If the plan of the book is somewhat out of the common, this is only in accordance with the special character of its subject.
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