Download or read book Glasses and Glass-Ceramics written by K. Annapurna and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents various useful processing techniques and applications of glasses and glass-ceramics. It covers various topics such as introduction to glass, its properties, thermodynamics of glass, heat transfer in glass melts, color in glass and advanced characterization techniques to analyze structure of glasses and glass-ceramics along with functional glasses and glass ceramics for advanced applications. This book will be a useful reference for students, researchers, scientists and technologists working in the field of materials science, especially glass.