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...Ordinary plate glass is melted, put through a series of rollers and then ground and polished to remove imperfections. The float process, devised by Alastair Pilkington, the company's production head and a distant cousin of the founder, produces better glass more simply and cheaply. In the process, molten glass flows onto the surface of hot liquid tin, acquiring a smooth, flawless surface as it floats, then is quickly cooled and hardened before it can be marred by touching any solid object. By reducing the steps in the production process, the method saves 30% of the ordinary cost...
...scene could have been played in Dante's nethermost pit. The sun-or perhaps it was the moon-whirled like a ball of molten lead above a bil lowing grey dust cloud that made any hour seem torrid twilight. An ear-numbing cacophony of whines, snarls, splashes, roars and curses engulfed the 35,000 laborers who went about their tasks...
...vacuum, atoms of gas in any material float away because they are unobstructed by air pressure. Last week U.S. Steel announced that it will build a giant vacuum "degasser," similar to one already at Jones & Laughlin, that releases contaminating gases from hundreds of tons of molten steel in minutes. Result: steel with so few harmful impurities that castings made from it for automobiles last 25% longer...
Loose particles of any material tend to travel in a straight line in a vacuum-a phenomenon that made television a reality by allowing the direction of electron beams to be precisely controlled in a vacuum tube. Liquids, from water to molten metals, boil and evaporate quickly at low temperatures in a vacuum and condense in an even film on any surface they strike. Thus industry has been able to lay thin metal grids in microcircuits (TIME, Feb. 7) and coat cheap plastic jewelry, auto trim or Christmas wrappings so that they look like gold or silver...
Tazieff lectures on his esoteric specialty at the University of Brussels, but drops his regular work whenever he gets a chance to confront an active volcano. Protected by fiber-glass armor that can deflect a molten bomb weighing 100 Ibs., he carefully stalks into the craters, sometimes close to the roaring throats, and plants seismographs to measure the heartbeat of lava rising deep under the mountain. He samples gases with little glass tubes poked into hot ash, studies the unstable build-up of fresh cinders. So far, Tazieff has escaped without serious injury...