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to handle these toxic liquids, however, sodium polytungstate [SPT, 3 Na2WO4·9 WO3·H2O] has become an efficient alternative [9], thanks to the fact that this salt can readily dissolve in distilled water to yield liquids with a maximum density of 3.1 g/cm3.

      Proper sampling of raw materials [4] thus is needed to guarantee their conformity with regard to possible geological heterogeneity and product variability at the quarry level. It relies on suitable quartering techniques to obtain a true fingerprint of the mineralogy of all raw materials from which incorporation of harmful species may be ruled out or at least minimized. In other words, heavy‐mineral content is an overwhelming and crucial specification concerning the physical and chemical properties that must be guaranteed by a producer of raw materials, especially when fabrication of a new glass has to be tested. Not complying with these specifications can generate long‐lasting yield drops and large financial losses for the glassmaker. Since glassmakers constantly need to diversify and secure their supplies of raw materials, heavy‐mineral characterization must routinely be operated by well‐equipped internal or academic laboratories.

      Of course, the bulk chemistry must also be determined on a daily basis at the plant by XRF, ICP‐MS, or wet chemistry (cf. Chapter 5.1) to monitor the variability of moisture and oxide content, especially for multielement raw materials, and thus to allow batch adjustments needed to keep the glass recipe constant to be calculated (cf. Chapter 1.3). As indicated above, the PSD, LOI, and COD parameters must in addition be included in the almost daily control of raw materials at the plant. In this way it is possible to anticipate possible drifts away from the targeted specifications of the raw‐material feed. As for the overall meltability, energy demand, and expected quality, they may be tested less routinely through differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements, while it should be compulsory to test the actual batch incrementally, first in the laboratory (few kg), then in a pilot furnace (~1 ton), and finally at the industrial scale (<1000 tons).

      3.3 Impurity‐related and Other Melting Defects

Photos depict the silica batch stone in a soda-lime silica glass, resulting from incomplete digestion of a lump of quartz grains as viewed under an optical microscope (a) and as observed in a thin section under transmitted light (b), where rounded grains of cristobalite formed as quartz pseudomorph are sluggishly digested while generating radially growing tridymite laths in a vitreous groundmass showing an overall open-porosity.

      Quartz batch stones can also result from an inadequate overall PSD when other raw materials contain up to several weight % of free silica as impurities, whose size distribution differs from that of quartz sand. Limestone, dolomite, and feldspars are typical examples, the two carbonates having a dmax for quartz as high as 2 mm or more (Figure 2). Given the aforementioned digestion rates of quartz, such large grains will end up as unmolten stones in the production process.

Photos depict the undissolved chromite crystal in a soda-lime silica glass as seen under a binocular microscope (a) and in a polished thin section photo under reflected light (b). The chromite grain shows a preserved FeCr2O4 core, exsolution lamellae, and radially growing eskolaite Cr2O3 laths in the outer shell.

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      Although Fe2+ then diffuses in the melt, the highly refractory eskolaite crystals (melting at 2435 °C) passivate the chromite core, which will thus remain throughout the production process.

Photo depicts a feldspar knot with about 20 wt percent Al2O3, enclosing bubbles in a soda-lime silica glass as seen under a binocular microscope.

      Even cullet may be a source of defects,