Float Glass Is A Sheet Material Used In Windows

Used in mirrors windows curtain walls and doors.
Float glass is a sheet material used in windows. However the float process which is very efficient now dominates the market for certain thin flat glass products that used to be made using the sheet process. Float glass is less expensive to produce than machine made plate glass. The float glass process is. It has wide application in residential structures.
It is sometimes also called window glass. There is little room left to wonder at how easy it overtook plate glass as the favored material to use in new construction. Today glass for commercial use is almost entirely float glass and plate glass is used only in very rare cases. Residential windows desk tops picture frames and so forth were typically made with sheet glass.
Made in the form of a sandwich consisting of an interlayer of transparent plastic material such as celluloid between two sheets of plate or sheet glass. Float glass is essentially a super smooth distortion free glass which is used for designing other glass items such as laminated glass heat toughened glass and so on. Float glass can be toughened a process that creates safety glass out of annealed glass. Most float glass is soda lime glass although relatively minor quantities of specialty borosilicate and flat panel display glass are also produced using the float glass process.
With a natural greenish hue and translucent nature it is capable of transmitting about 87 of the incident light and unlike sheet glass float glass provides users with a. The thickness is determined by the speed at which the solidifying glass is taken off the bath. Float glass is the most commonly used in glass windows. Plate glass flat glass or sheet glass is a type of glass initially produced in plane form commonly used for windows glass doors transparent walls and windscreens.
Float glass is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal typically tin although lead and other various low melting point alloys were used in the past. For modern architectural and automotive applications the flat glass is sometimes bent after production of the plane sheet. This method gives the sheet uniform thickness and very flat surfaces. It also has fewer irregularities.
Modern windows are made from float glass.