The Realtionship Between Properties Of Melts And Glasses And Their Structure: A Thermodynamic

The relationship between properties of melts and their structure is one of the basic problems of glass science. In this paper, an attempt will be made to show that information on the amounts of the basic structural units or ratio between them in glasses is insufficient for an adequate description of their properties. Also, it will be shown that the concept of the chemical structure can successfully be used for calculating, on a unified basis and without the use of adjustable parameters, a large variety of glass properties.