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Clear Float Glass - fdaforum - 08-14-2014

Clear Float Glass

Basic float glass is manufactured by melting sand. Other ingredients such as soda ash, limestone and salt cake are added to lower the melting temperature of silica and promote optical clarity of the finished glass product. Mixed batch of above materials is heated to a temperature of about 1650° C and formed into large flat sheets by floating molten glass on molten tin, thus giving it precise flatness and transparency..

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