In this study, the thermal expansion of a number of mixed oxide glasses was measured in the solid and liquid regions by gamma densitometry. Conventional density measurement techniques are limited to either the solid or the liquid phase; however, with this noncontacting technique, the density and thermal expansion of both the solid and the liquid phases may be investigated as the temperature is varied and the glass viscosity varies over a wide range. This technique allows the continuous measurement of density as the liquid cools to a supercooled glass or to a crystalline solid. Lead borate glasses were examined in the range 27 to 42 mol % PbO. The liquid-phase volumetric thermal expansion coefficient was observed to decrease with increasing PbO content, in contrast to the solid-phase linear thermal expansion coefficients. In soda-baria phosphate glasses (50 mol% P2O5), liquid-phase volumetric expansion coefficients were found to vary as the solid-phase linear expansion coefficients. Measurements on a lithia-aluminoscilicate glass ceramic were obtained by this method to approximately 400°C above the limit of conventional dilatometry. The gamma densitometry technique can yield density, thermal expansion, glass transition and crystallization information, and quenching-rate dependence data on glasses to temperatures in excess of 1500°C, and thus provides a means for high-temperature characterization of glasses which complements conventional dilatometry, calorimetry, and thermal analysis.