Colorado School of Mines researchers discovered a variety of food and agricultural wastes contain useful, extractable amounts of oxides, especially silica, and showed they can be melted into glass.
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Read MoreThe Italy-based World Academy of Ceramics has selected its 15th class of Professional Members of the Academy in its biennial election, including ACerS immediate past president George Wicks and 12 other ACerS members.
Read MoreThe 74th Glass Problems Conference is sure to offer valuable information to anyone involved in the glassmaking industry, but some of the event’s most useful programming is in the exclusive short courses and symposia being offered as separate options to attendees.
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