While it is literally true that the material used in manufacturing Pyrex brand glass bakeware has changed from borosilicate glass to soda lime glass, the brand's current owner, World Kitchen ...

Corning Glass Works developed its own recipe for borosilicate glass in 1908, and Corning employee Jesse Littleton discovered a new use for the material after his wife Bessie used a sawed-off ...

For example, a calculation published by the American Ceramic Society found that borosilicate glass can withstand a sudden temperature change of up to about 330 degrees Fahrenheit, whereas tempered ...

Figure 1. Transmission curve for 2mm thick borosilicate glass. Properties of borosilicate glass shown are typical values, they are not absolute material properties, and should be used for guidance ...

Borosilicate glass “is a chemically inert material and remains unchanged under all normal environmental circumstances,” Döscher says. It is stable and retains its shape at temperatures as ...

Traditionally, pharmaceutical vials have been made from borosilicate glass, which is the same laboratory-safe material as Corning’s Pyrex. Borosilicate glass gets its strength from the addition ...

Fiberglass may not be a flashy material, but it’s ubiquitous. It’s also big business. “Today there are over 40,000 applications just for reinforcement glass fiber,” Korwin-Edson says.