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Arsenic pentoxide glasses

US3960578A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 19, 1973
Grant dateJun 1, 1976
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Expiry dateJan 19, 1993

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S501/906
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Arsenic pentoxide glasses characterized by containing 8 - 60 wt.% arsenic pentoxide and correspondingly 92 - 40 wt.% polyvalent metal fluorides exhibit improved processing characteristics while maintaining outstanding optical properties when prepared from a formula containing at least 0.5% of at least one member selected from the group consisting of bromides, chlorides, sulfates and metal oxides.

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