Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors -- 1 Thermodynamics of Glasses -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Language of Phenomenological Thermodynamics -- 1.3 The Glassy State -- 1.4 Multicomponent Glasses -- 1.5 Summary and Outlook -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- References -- 2 Chemical Durability of Glasses -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Design and Evaluation of Corrosion Tests -- 2.2.1 Design of Corrosion Tests -- 2.2.2 Evaluation of Corrosion Tests -- 2.3 Sub-surface Layers -- 2.4 Thermodynamic Approach to the Hydrolytic Stability -- 2.5 Rate Equation -- 2.6 Reaction Path Calculation, Corrosion Layers, Long-Term Behavior -- 2.7 Summary and Outlook -- References -- 3 Radiation Heat Transfer in Glass Melts: Key Concepts and Phenomena -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Review of Some Basic Concepts of Thermal Radiation -- 3.2.1 Planck's Law (Spectral/Monochromatic Blackbody Emissive Power) -- 3.2.2 Stefan-Boltzmann Law (Total Blackbody Emissive Power) -- 3.2.3 Intensity of Radiation -- 3.2.4 Radiation Properties of Surfaces -- 3.3 Radiation in Absorbing, Emitting, and Scattering Media -- 3.3.1 Attenuation of Radiative Intensity by Absorption and Scattering -- 3.3.2 Augmentation of Radiative Intensity by Emission and Scattering -- 3.3.3 The Radiative Transfer Equation -- 3.4 Radiative Heat Flux and Its Divergence -- 3.5 Approximate and Limiting Cases of RTE -- 3.5.1 One-Dimensional RTE in a Non-scattering Medium -- 3.5.2 Optically Thin Limit (τLλ ≪ 1) -- |