Thermal-fluctuation mechanism of long-term corrosion of glass caused by internal stress: processes of depolymerization, impurity migration and fracturing on an atomic scale

Irina F. Kadikova, Tatyana V. Yuryeva, Ekaterina A. Morozova +4

Long-term corrosion of glass is studied using polarising light microscopy, FTIR and SEM including EDX and elemental mapping. Early 19th century beads made of lead-potassium glass a…