Electrochemistry of Glass-Forming Melts

Abstract

This chapter is concerned with the electrochemistry of oxidic glass-forming melts, and it may be mentioned at the outset that, in a strict sense, the term glass-forming melts is a more accurate name for this class of materials than just glass melts, at least with regard to glass production, because they are produced to become, but have never before been, glasses. Because, however, both terms are frequently used also for glasses that have been remelted, for instance in laboratories, melts treated in this chapter will not only be called glass-forming melts but will occasionally be termed glass melts.