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 ====== Material selection ====== ====== Material selection ======
  
-== Glass ==+=== Glass ===
 Glass is pretty good. When tempered and treated it's pretty shock-resistant, can handle a wide range of temperatures, handles radiation. Glass is pretty good. When tempered and treated it's pretty shock-resistant, can handle a wide range of temperatures, handles radiation.
  
-= Toughening = +== Toughening =
-Tempering glass makes it strong. I've done this already on the leaf-in-glass project. Also soaking in molten potassium nitrate at 300 degrees for a while. This [[https://patents.google.com/patent/US3445208|patent]] describes a process which uses all kinds of nasties dissolved in the liquid KNO3. I'm not going to risk fluoride poisoning.+Tempering glass makes it strong. I've done this already on the leaf-in-glass project. Also soaking in molten potassium nitrate at 300 degrees for a while. This [[https://patents.google.com/patent/US3445208|patent]] describes a process which uses all kinds of nasties dissolved in the liquid KNO<sub>3</sub>. I'm not going to risk fluoride poisoning.
  
 ====== Shielding ====== ====== Shielding ======
projects/glass_sphere/housing.txt · Last modified: 2019/02/24 22:54 by tjhowse