An ultraviolet light absorbing glass according to the present invention includes 1.6% or more of t-Fe.sub.2O.sub.3, more than 1.0% of TiO.sub.2, and 0.016% or more of CoO. The ultraviolet light absorbing glass has t-Fe.sub.2O.sub.3/TiO.sub.2 of 1.2 or more, and an ultraviolet light transmittance (TUV400) at a sheet thickness of 3.1 mm of 2.0% or less, a ratio of visible light transmittance (TVA)/TUV400 of 10 or more, and a dominant wavelength (λD) of 555 nm or less.

Methods for making articles comprising crystalline material. Exemplary articles made by a method described herein include electronics enclosure (e.g., a watch case, cellular phone case, or a tablet case).

A method of manufacture of a dental prosthesis is described, comprising using a rotary milling or drilling tool (16) to mill or drill a block (12) of a sintered ceramic material. The use of a tool (16) to mill or drill material from a block (12) of a sintered ceramic material such as lithium silicate or lithium disilicate allows manufacture of a glass ceramic dental prosthesis in a relatively efficient manner.

The present invention discloses a glass material, and a preparation method and a product thereof. The glass material contains a lithium salt crystalline phase and a phosphate crystalline phase. For the entire material, the crystallinity is 40-95%, the lithium salt crystalline phase accounts for 40-90 wt % of the entire material, and the phosphate crystalline phase accounts for 2-15 wt % of the entire material, wherein the lithium salt crystalline phase is one or more of lithium silicate, lithium disilicate and petalite, and the phosphate crystalline phase is aluminum phosphate or/and aluminum metaphosphate. After the glass material of the present invention is toughened, the Vickers hardness (Hv) is 900 kgf/mm.sup.2 or above. The glass material or a substrate of the present invention is suitable for protective members such as mobile terminal equipment and optical equipment and has high hardness and strength. Furthermore, the present invention may also be used for other decorations such as outer frame members of portable electronic equipment.

A syringe or other vessel having a substrate surface coated by PECVD is provided. The PECVD coating is made by generating plasma from a gaseous reactant comprising an organosilicon precursor and optionally O.sub.2. The lubricity, hydrophobicity and/or barrier properties of the coating are set by setting the ratio of the O.sub.2 to the organosilicon precursor in the gaseous reactant, and/or by setting the electric power used for generating the plasma. In particular, a lubricity coating made by said method is provided. Vessels coated by said method and the use of such vessels protecting a compound or composition contained or received in said coated vessel against mechanical and/or chemical effects of the surface of the uncoated vessel material are also provided.

The present disclosure provides glass compositions that include from 45 mol% to about 95 mol% of B203; from about 3 mol% to about 60 m ol% of one or more glass components selected from the group consisting of: K20, Na20, CaO, and MgO; and from about 2 mol% to about 45 mol% of CaF.sub.2, SnF.sub.2, NaF, KF, Na.sub.2PO.sub.3 F, or a combination thereof, where the glass includes less than 30 mol% of CaF.sub.2, SnF.sub.2, or a combination thereof. The glass includes: substantially no CuO; less than 0.1 mol% of Li.sub.20, less than 0.1 mol% of Rb.sub.2O, less than 0.1 mol% of BaO; less than 0.1 mol% of P.sub.20.sub.5; less than 0.1 mol% SiO.sub.2; and less than 30 mol% of MgO. The glass composition may be used to desensitize dentin. The present disclosure also provides dentin-desensitizing compositions, as well as methods and uses of the disclosed glass compositions.

The present invention provides a red light emitting glass ceramic and a preparation method thereof, and an LED/LD light emitting device. A.sub.2Al.sub.4Si.sub.5O.sub.18:Eu.sup.2+ cordierite of the red light emitting glass ceramic capable of realizing blue light excited red light emission is a crystal phase material, wherein A is at least one of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba and Zn and at least comprises Mg. The present invention particularly provides the red light emitting glass ceramic taking a chemical formula A.sub.2Al.sub.4Si.sub.5O.sub.18:Eu.sup.2+ as a crystal phase. The present invention further provides a preparation method of the transparent glass ceramic. The glass ceramic comprising the crystal phase, with the chemical formula of Mg.sub.2Al.sub.4Si.sub.5O.sub.18:Eu.sup.2+, is excited by blue light to emit red light, the internal/external quantum efficiencies reaching up to 94.5%/70.6%, respectively.

A glass composition includes SiO.sub.2, Al.sub.2O.sub.3, optionally B.sub.2O.sub.3, optionally Li.sub.2O, Na.sub.2O, optionally K.sub.2O, optionally CaO, optionally MgO; and optionally ZnO in certain ranges. R.sub.2O+R′O is less than or equal to 25 mol %, where R.sub.2O is the sum of Li.sub.2O, Na.sub.2O, and K.sub.2O and R′O is the sum of CaO, MgO, and ZnO. And, the glass composition includes colorants, such as NiO, CO.sub.3O.sub.4, Cr.sub.2O.sub.3, CuO, and CeO.sub.2 in certain ranges. Further, the constituents are arranged so as to facilitate low diectric, high toughness, desired color, and high strength.

A glass-ceramic article having greater than or equal to 65.00 wt. % and less than or equal to 80.00 wt. % SiO.sub.2, greater than 4.00 wt. % and less than or equal to 12.00 wt. % Al.sub.2O.sub.3, greater than or equal to 0.10 wt. % and less than or equal to 3.5 wt. % P.sub.2O.sub.5, greater than or equal to 8.00 wt. % and less than or equal to 17.00 wt. % Li.sub.2O, greater than or equal to 4.00 wt. % and less than or equal to 15.00 wt. % ZrO.sub.2, and greater than or equal to 0.05 wt. % and less than or equal to 4.00 wt. % CaO.

A glass ceramic article including a lithium disilicate crystalline phase, a petalite crystalline phased, and a residual glass phase. The glass ceramic article has a warp (μm)<(3.65×10.sup.−9/μm×diagonal.sup.2) where diagonal is a diagonal measurement of the glass ceramic article in μm, a stress of less than 30 nm of retardation per mm of glass ceramic article thickness, a haze (%)<0.0994t+0.12 where t is the thickness of the glass ceramic article in mm, and an optical transmission (%)>0.91×10.sup.(2−0.03t) of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths from 450 nm to 800 nm, where t is the thickness of the glass ceramic article in mm.