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Corning Unveils 'Green' LCD Glass

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CORNING, N.Y., March 22, 2006 -- Corning Inc. said Tuesday it has developed the first environmentally friendly LCD glass. Corning Display Technologies President James P. Clappin introduced the heavy metal-free product, the Eagle XG, during the US Flat Panel Display Conference in San Diego, Calif. “Eagle XG is an environmentally friendly glass that is the first of its kind. The value it provides to our customers will continue to increase as future environmental regulations are introduced,” he said. Clappin said Eagle XG is the first and only LCD glass to be completely free of heavy metals,...Read full article

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    Published: March 2006
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    glass
    A noncrystalline, inorganic mixture of various metallic oxides fused by heating with glassifiers such as silica, or boric or phosphoric oxides. Common window or bottle glass is a mixture of soda, lime and sand, melted and cast, rolled or blown to shape. Most glasses are transparent in the visible spectrum and up to about 2.5 µm in the infrared, but some are opaque such as natural obsidian; these are, nevertheless, useful as mirror blanks. Traces of some elements such as cobalt, copper and...
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