fact of the day!

more than half the weight of pyrex glass is oxygen
(http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/Star/compos.pl?matno=169)

4 Responses to “fact of the day!”

  1. cakesniffer says:

    Sort of makes sense as glass ~= sand ~= silicon oxide = Si02 (?)

  2. blodgett says:

    blodgett was thinking more along the lines that if one attempted to inhale a pie dish, less than half of it would get in the way!

  3. doik says:

    from wikipedia
    The composition of both Corning 7740 and Schott 8830 is given as 80.6% SiO2, 12.6% B2O3, 4.2% Na2O, 2.2%Al2O3, 0.04% Fe2O3, 0.1% CaO, 0.05% MgO, and 0.1% Cl.

  4. blodgett says:

    blodgett declares these comments to be far too informative