A glass article is provided that includes: a glass substrate comprising a thickness and a primary surface; and a textured region defined by the primary surface. The textured region comprises a plurality of sub-surface hillocks, each hillock having a top surface and a base, the base located below the primary surface of the substrate. The plurality of hillocks comprises an average lateral feature size from 0.1 μm to 3 μm and an average height from 5 nm to 200 nm. Further, the primary surface of the substrate is substantially planar.

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.

A trim element for a motor vehicle that includes at least one glass sheet having an absorption coefficient lower than 5 m.sup.−1 in the wavelength range from 1051 nm to 1650 nm and having an external and an internal faces. An infrared-based remote sensing device in the wavelength range from 1051 nm to 1650 nm is placed behind the internal face of the glass sheet.

A trim element for a motor vehicle that includes at least one glass sheet having an absorption coefficient comprised between 5 m.sup.−1 and 15 m.sup.−1 in the wavelength range from 750 to 1650 nm and having an external and an internal faces. An infrared-based remote sensing device in the wavelength range from 750 to 1650 nm is placed behind the internal face of the glass sheet.

The invention relates to a glass sheet having a luminous transmission LTD4≥87% and having a composition free of antimony and arsenic, comprising total iron (expressed in the form of Fe.sub.2O.sub.3) from 0.002-0.04% and erbium (expressed in the form of Er.sub.2O.sub.3) from 0.003-0.1%. The glass sheet composition further having a redox ratio ≤32% and satisfying the formula 1.3*Fe.sub.2O.sub.3≤Er.sub.2O.sub.3−21.87*Cr.sub.2O.sub.3−53.12*Co≤2.6*Fe.sub.2O.sub.3. Such a glass sheet has a high luminous transmittance and has warm-toned to neutral colored edges and is particularly suitable due to its aesthetics as building glass or interior glass, as well as in furniture applications, as automotive glass, or as cover glass in electronic devices/displays.

A vitrifiable feed material for producing flint glass by way of a process that uses submerged combustion melting includes a base glass portion, an oxidizing agent, and a decolorant. The base glass portion includes an SiO.sub.2 contributor, an Na.sub.2O contributor, and a CaO contributor to provide SiO.sub.2, Na.sub.2O, and CaO, respectively, to a glass melt when melted therein. The oxidizing agent may be a sulfate compound in an amount ranging from 0.20 wt % to 0.50 wt % as expressed as SO.sub.3 based on the total weight of the vitrifiable feed material, and the decolorant may be selenium in an amount ranging from 0.008 wt % to 0.016 wt % or manganese oxide in an amount ranging from 0.1 wt % to 0.2 wt % based on the total weight of the vitrifiable feed material.

The present invention relates to a glass ceramic having a visible-light transmittance of 85% or more in terms of a thickness of 0.7 mm, and a haze value of 1.0% or less in terms of a thickness of 0.7 mm, and including, in mass % on an oxide basis: 45-70% of SiO.sub.2; 1-15% of Al.sub.2O.sub.3; and 10-25% of Li.sub.2O.

A glass sheet having a composition comprising a total iron content of 0.002-0.03% expressed in the form of Fe.sub.2O.sub.3 and in weight percentage with respect to the total weight of glass, and further satisfying the formula N*.sub.5≤0.05; N*.sub.5 being defined as N*.sub.5=√{square root over ((a*.sub.5−a*.sub.0).sup.2+(b*.sub.5−b*.sub.0).sup.2)}, a*.sub.5 and b*.sub.5 being measured for a sheet thickness of 5 mm in transmission with illuminant D65, 10°, SCI; a*.sub.0 and b*.sub.0 being computed for a sheet thickness of 0 mm in transmission with illuminant D65, 10°, SCI. Such a glass sheet allows a color rendering of the sheet which is essentially the same whatever the view path available for an observer of the object integrating said glass sheet (when looking through its main faces or through its edges or through a zone bearing a diffusing coating).

A glass sheet having a composition comprising the following in weight percentage, expressed with respect to the total weight of glass: Total iron (expressed as Fe.sub.2O.sub.3) 20-750 ppm; Selenium (expressed as Se) 0.1-<3 ppm; Cobalt (expressed as Co) 0.05-5 ppm; and a ratio Er.sub.2O.sub.3/Fe.sub.2O.sub.3 0.1-1.5.
Such a glass sheet has a high luminous transmittance and shows edges which are colorless/achromatic and very luminous/bright, while maximizing the luminous transmittance. The glass sheet is particularly suitable due to its aesthetics as building glass or interior glass.

A method of making glass having a basic soda-lime-silica glass portion, and a colorant portion, the colorant portion including total iron as Fe.sub.2O.sub.3 in the range of at least 0.00 to no more than 0.02 weight percent, a redox ratio in the range of 0.35 to 0.6, and tin metal providing tin in an amount within the range of greater than 0.005 to 5.0 weight percent; the glass product has a tin side and an opposite air side, said tin side of the glass having a higher concentration of tin than the air side, the air side having a uniform concentration of tin from the air side of the glass product towards the tin side of the glass product.