Talk about "nuking" the leftoversIs Corning Gorilla Glass ( Alumino-silicate glass ) good for "labware" ? I wonder.
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?Info=0109606&From=News Hoyt Stearns Scottsdale, Arizona US -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 10:32 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Talk about "nuking" the leftovers Curious side note: to the breaking of the Pyrex bowl in this video - via plasma contact. This breakage should not have happened so quickly, IMHO . Pyrex is the brand name for Corning glassware - and it was originally borosilicate glass. Very tough stuff. Due to cost (profit, that is) the Pyrex manufactured in the US these days for home use is made of tempered soda-lime glass, which is much less shock and heat-resistant than borosilicate. This change happened many years ago. This kind of "change for the worse" is probably why this bowl broke with only moderate plasma contact - it was the new and inferior kind of Pyrex. This is a guess. OTOH borosilicate would undoubtedly be poised to react, if any neutrons were created in the plasma ball (this is because of the high cross-section of B10) and the result is a highly energetic alpha particle and lithium ion, over 2+MeV, which could create a fracture zone in the glass. [Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.] ...
