Reactor Glass - Borosilicate Glass （From toption-china.com）I am sure that you must have been very familiar with glass in your daily life. Indeed, glass product is used in many fields, for example: milk bottles, kitchen wares, and so on. However, in this article, I will introduce a very special glass – reactor glass.
At first, let me talk about chemical reaction. It is the change of a substance into a new one that has a different chemical identify; Usually, chemical reaction accompanied by easily observed physical effects like a color change or the
evolution of gas etc. In chemical industry, there are a lot of products play a very important role in our daily; this thanks to the process of chemical reaction. Indeed, chemical reaction related more to your everyday life. And, chemical rector is a very important device used in the process of chemical reaction; this reactor is often made from a special glass – borosilicate glass. As a type of glass with silica and boron trioxide as the main glass-forming constituents, borosilicate glass has very low coefficients of thermal expansion (about one –third that of ordinary soda-lime glass); for this reason, this glass is resistant to thermal shock. In addition, borosilicate glass include at least 5% boric oxide, this make it resistant to extreme temperature; at the same time, the boron oxide serves as a flux or glue to hold the silicate particles together with aluminum oxide and sodium oxide. In addition, borosilicate glass also has ability to improve resistance to chemical corrosion due to the boron oxide content. Corrosion is the gradual destruction of materials by chemical reaction with their environment; it can be concentrated locally to form a pit of crack or extend across a wide area more or less uniformly corroding the surface. Corrosion is a commonplace occurrence and you can find many examples in your daily life, such as rusting and flaking of an old iron yard piece. In the process of corrosion, three main components are necessary, including: metal, oxygen and an electrolyte. Corrosion process has a lot of disadvantages, for example: it can influence the chemical properties of a metal and generate change in metal’s physical properties and mechanical behavior. This is why it is so important to be resistant corrosion. For this reason, the benefit of corrosion resistant in borosilicate glass is so important to chemical reactor. On the other hand, laboratories are able to heat one end to a hotplate or under a flame without worrying about the other hand; this thanks to that borosilicate glassware can exposed to two temperatures at the same time. Borosilicate glass is very popular for laboratory glassware and other scientific instruments due to it can handle both extreme heat and cold; just like mentioned earlier, this kind of glass is used as material of chemical reactor. Nowadays, chemical reactor can be divided into different types like glass reactor and stainless steel reactor, according to the materials. Today there are many types of chemical reactor are available and these can meet your various requests.