Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol.93, No.1, 217-220, 2010
Empirical Equation for Calculating the Density of Oxide Glasses
The density of oxide glass including silicate, borate, phosphate, tellurite, and germanate glasses were measured using the Archimedes method. On the assumption that the ionic packing ratio is approximately a constant independent of chemical composition, an empirical equation for estimating the density from chemical composition was proposed. The calculated values are in reasonable agreement with the corresponding measured ones.