Synthesis and characterization of ZnO-Na2O-Bi2O3-B2O3 glass system

Abstract

Glasses are characterized by very large possibilities of compositions. There are in fact some hundreds of thousands possible compositions of glasses. The aim of the present study is to prepare quaternary glass systems with the compositions xZnO-(30-x)Na₂O-36Bi₂O₃-34B₂O₃,( the values of x ranging from 5 to 25 in mol% in steps of 5) by using melt quenching technique. We call the glasses of different compositions obtained with five different names G₁, G₂, G₃, G₄, and G₅. The glasses are prepared and the obtained glasses appearance and other physical properties are discussed. X-ray diffraction, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscope and Scanning Electron Microscope have been used for the Characterization and study of density of glasses prepared.