Abstract
As part of a systematic study of the chemical stability of borosilicate glasses, we show that the Gibbs free energy of formation of a glass can be determined experimentally from a comprehensive, consistent set of measurements. For a sodium borosilicate glass with 14.2 mol% Na 2O and 18.4 mol% B 2O 3, the relative enthalpy and entropy have been determined from heat capacities measured from 13 to 1480 K by adiabatic, differential scanning and drop calorimetry; the enthalpy of formation has been obtained from solution calorimetry at 970 K, whereas the configurational entropy of the glass has been derived from viscosity measurements through the Adam–Gibbs configurational entropy theory. The structural and thermochemical implications of the results are discussed in terms of short-range order and mixing of BO 3 and BO 4 units.
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