Glass is indispensable in daily life, and the basic ones are doors and windows. There are many types of glass windows, including insulated glass windows, float glass window, tempered glass windows, and so on. So, how much do you know about float glass? Today, let's learn how to distinguish tempered glass, float glass, and clear float glass.
Tempered glass refers to the type of glass that is formed and then heat treated in a glass tempering furnace to toughen it and tempered glass is coated or coated on the surface of tempered glass to prevent it from scattering and breaking,so it also called tempered safety glass.
Float glass refers to glass made by the floating method. The general principle is that the glass tempering furnace pours melted glass liquid onto the surface of a liquid (liquid tin) with a specific gravity greater than the glass liquid to form the glass. Compared with other mechanical methods, because its special float glass processing workmanship, float glass can reduce the occurrence of uneven glass or bubbles caused by mechanical vibration.
The so-called clear float glass is relative to traditional glass. The color of pure glass should be colorless and transparent. Impurities in the glass can cause the produced glass to turn green. Clear float glass is to use some method to reduce the iron content in the glass and make the color of the glass close to transparent and colorless.