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Evidence of Silica Polymerization During Internal Nucleation of Glassy Lithium Disilicate
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
Abstract
The principal problem in developing a theory of internal nucleation lies in the constitution of the nascent nuclei. To get at this constitution in an internally nucleating glass, oxygen and lithium core level x-ray photoelectron spectra have been measured on glassy and nucleated lithium disilicate and on the three stable crystalline compounds in the Li2O-SiO2 system. Our results indicate that nucleated lithium disilicate glass consists of completely polymerized silica in the formation of which non-bridging oxygens are consumed. During this silica polymerization lithium atoms move away from presumably four-fold coordinated sites towards higher coordinated ones.
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