| 1. | The fiber is made from fused silica, highly refined glass invented by Corning.
|
| 2. | Helium penetrates into fused silica at high pressure, reducing its compressibility.
|
| 3. | Hyde, an astronomy buff, dropped everything in 1932 to begin his fused silica experiments.
|
| 4. | This development reduces the effects of ion creep that plagues fused silica arc tubes.
|
| 5. | It's called fused silica, and it remains the most immaculate commercial glass on Earth.
|
| 6. | All grades of transparent fused quartz / fused silica have nearly identical physical properties.
|
| 7. | They use cube-corner retroreflectors made of fused silica glass.
|
| 8. | The cubes are made of fused silica which are mounted to an aluminum support structure.
|
| 9. | Composite armor made with fused silica glass was intended on the turret and the hull.
|
| 10. | The impurity-free glass he found a practical way of making in bulk is called fused silica.
|
