An element composed of glass displaying reduced electrostatic charging is provided. The element is suitable as a housing component for electronic elements, an element implantable in the human or animal body including glass tubes for reed switches or transponders and/or implants. The glass includes at least one alkali metal and/or an alkali metal oxide and has a surface. The concentration of at least one alkali metal and/or the alkali metal oxide increases from the surface in a direction of an interior of the element in such a way that a maximum concentration of the alkali metal and/or the alkali metal oxide occurs at a distance of not more than 60 nanometres, measured perpendicularly from the surface.

The invention relates to an installation (1) for treating the inner face (6) of the wall (3) of a glass container (2), which wall (3) delimits a receiving cavity (4) and an opening (5) providing access to the cavity (4), the installation (1) comprising a source (12) of a treatment substance (13) and a means (15) for dispensing the treatment substance (13) into the cavity (4) of the container (1), said dispensing means (15) comprising a metering chamber (16) which extends between an inlet orifice (18) and an opposite outlet orifice (19) intended to be positioned above the opening (5) of the container, and also an upper shutter (20) and a lower shutter (21) for the chamber (16), which are positioned in a tiered manner at the inlet orifice (18) and the outlet orifice (19), respectively, of the chamber (16). Installations and methods for treating glass containers.

The invention relates to a container (1) comprising a wall (2) made of glass delimiting a cavity (3) to accommodate a substance, particularly for a pharmaceutical or diagnostic substance, the glass wall (2) having an internal face (4) situated facing the accommodating cavity (3), the container (1) being characterized in that the wall (2) is made of soda-lime glass, the internal face (4) forming a bare glass surface intended to come into direct contact with the substance, the glass wall (2) having an atomic fraction of sodium, measured by X-ray-induced photoelectron spectrometry, which is less than or equal to 4 at. % down to a depth of at least 200 nm from the surface of the inner face (4).

Embodiments of the present invention pertain to antimicrobial glass compositions, glasses and articles. The articles include a glass, which may include a glass phase and a cuprite phase. In other embodiments, the glasses include as plurality of Cu.sup.1+ ions, a degradable phase including B.sub.2O.sub.3, P.sub.2O.sub.5 and K.sub.2O and a durable phase including SiO.sub.2. Other embodiments include glasses having a plurality of Cu.sup.1+ ions disposed on the surface of the glass and in the glass network and/or the glass matrix. The article may also include a polymer. The glasses and articles disclosed herein exhibit a 2 log reduction or greater in a concentration of at least one of Staphylococcus aureus, Enterobacter aerogenes, Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria, Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and E. coli, under the EPA Test Method for Efficacy of Copper Alloy as a Sanitizer testing conditions and under Modified JIS Z 2801 for Bacteria testing conditions. In some embodiments, the glass and articles exhibit a 2 log reduction or greater in a concentration of Murine Norovirus under Modified JIS Z 2801 Test for Viruses testing conditions.

In some embodiments, a method comprises leaching a surface of a glass or glass ceramic substrate to form a leached layer. The glass or glass ceramic substrate comprises a multi-component material. The material has a bulk composition, in mol % on an oxide basis: 51% to 90% SiO.sub.2; 10% to 49% total of minority components RO.sub.x. Leaching comprises selectively removing components RO.sub.x of the glass or glass ceramic substrate preferentially to removal of SiO.sub.2. In the leached layer, the RO.sub.x concentration is 50% or less than the RO.sub.x concentration of the bulk composition.

A float glass sheet having a boron- and lithium-free glass composition comprising the following in weight percentage, expressed with respect to the total weight of glass: 65SiO.sub.278% 5Na.sub.2O20% 1K.sub.2O<8% 1Al.sub.2O.sub.3<6% 2CaO<10% 0MgO8%; K.sub.2O/(K.sub.2O+Na.sub.2O) ratio which is from 0.1 to 0.7; wherein the glass sheet has: $0.01<.Math.\frac{{\left({\mathrm{Na}}_{2}O\right)}_{\mathrm{air}}}{{\left({\mathrm{Na}}_{2}O\right)}_{\mathrm{tin}}}-1.03.Math.3.$ The glass sheet may be a chemically-temperable soda-silica type glass composition suitable for mass production that shows reduced or controlled increased warping effect.

The invention relates to a float glass sheet having a boron- and lithium-free glass composition comprising the following in weight percentage, expressed with respect to the total weight of glass: 65SiO.sub.278% 5Na.sub.2O20% 0K.sub.2O<5% 1Al.sub.2O.sub.3<6% 0CaO<4.5% 4MgO12% a (MgO/(MgO+CaO)) ratio0.5 characterized in that the glass sheet has: (I). The invention corresponds to an easy chemically-temperable soda-silica type glass composition, which is more suited for mass production than aluminosilicate glass, and therefore is available at low cost, and with a base glass/matrix composition that is close to or very similar to compositions already used in existing mass production, and finally which shows reduced or controlled increased warping effect.

The glass sheet production method of the present invention is a method for producing a surface-modified glass sheet, including a gas contact step of bringing hydrogen fluoride (HF) gas, hydrogen chloride (HCl) gas, and water vapor into contact with at least one principal surface of a glass sheet. A gas containing the hydrogen fluoride (HF) gas is used in the gas contact step, and in the gas containing the hydrogen fluoride (HF) gas, a volume ratio of the water vapor to the hydrogen fluoride (HF) gas (volume of water vapor/volume of HF gas) is 8 or more.

A method of the present invention for producing glass sheets includes the steps of: (I) forming a molten glass raw material into a glass ribbon on a molten metal; and (II) bringing an acid gas that contains a fluorine element (F)-containing acid and in which a volume ratio of water vapor to the acid (a volume of the water vapor/a volume of the acid) is 0 or more and 30 or less, into contact with a surface of the glass ribbon on the molten metal so as to subject the surface of the glass ribbon to dealkalization and control a morphology of the surface in accordance with the volume ratio.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of manufacturing a display window includes preparing a mother substrate, performing a salt treatment on the mother substrate to form a silicon-rich layer in a surface of the mother substrate to a first depth from the surface of the mother substrate, and removing the silicon-rich layer, wherein the first depth is greater than a depth of any cracks in the surface of the mother substrate, and a ratio of silicon content in the silicon-rich layer to a silicon content in the mother substrate is 1.2 to 1.4.