Heat Expansion

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Heat Expansion

Book: Field Guide to Molded Optics

Author(s): Michael Schaub, Alan Symmons

Published: 2016

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2230581.ch14

Abstract

Dilatometry is used to measure the heat expansion properties of a glass by measuring the expansion of a rod as it is heated at a specific rate. The rate of heating is important in glass because the properties of glass are dependent on its thermal history.
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