TIME Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.

Current subscribers for full access. Not a TIME subscriber? .

Science: Fused Quartz

In the Lynn works of the General Electric Company, has been produced a substance known as a clear fused quartz, which possesses an astonishing catalog of uses and properties:

1.) It is the most transparent solid known, transmitting 92% of the light passed through a meter rod of it. The best optical glass transmits 65%; ordinary glass 35%.

2.) It transmits all the rays of the sunlight, including the ultraviolet and infrared, which are cut out by ordinary glass. Owing to this property it is expected to be of great value to medicine. By...

Time.com on Digg

POWERED BY digg

For use in rail of Articles page or Section Fronts pages. Duplicate and change name as necesssary to distinguish.