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Terminated in academic year 2009/2010

Principles of Silicates Chemistry

Type of study Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0537/02
Abbreviation ZCHS
Course title Principles of Silicates Chemistry
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Vladimír Slivka, CSc., dr. h. c.

Subject syllabus

1. Basic substances and systems.
2.Characteristics of glass
3. Properties of molten glass.
4. Glass manufacture.
5. Properties of glass.
6. Principal types of industrial glasses.
7. Glass-Ceramics.
8. Ceramics based on clay raw materials.
9. Technical ceramics.
10. Refractories for industrial furnaces.
11. Coatings.
12. Hydraulic binders.
13. Non-hydraulic binders.

Literature

Hlaváč, J. The technology of glass and ceramics. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1983.

Advised literature

Ceramics - Silikáty / published by Foundation of Professor Rudolf Bárta, Institute od Chemical Technology in Prague, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. - Praha : Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická [Praha], 1990- ISSN 0862-5468  (print)1804-5847 (online)