JPH1160269A - Ultraviolet-absorbing colorless transparent glass - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain the subject glass at lower cost more easily and more colorlessly than conventional ones. SOLUTION: This glass is obtained by incorporating 0.02-0.07 wt.% of erbium oxide as color fading agent in a soda-lime glass containing 0.3-0.6 wt.% of cerium oxide and <=0.05 wt.% of iron oxide. Incorporation of the cerium oxide affords this glass with ultraviolet light absorption effect. Yellowish color due to the iron oxide and cerium oxide can be corrected owing to the pale pinky color of the erbium oxide, getting virtually colorless. The color development of the erbium oxide is highly stable, being hard to be influenced by atmospheric change or an oxidizing agent such as the cerium oxide, thereby easily affording desired effects.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a UV-absorbing colorless and transparent glass particularly suitable for use as a glass bottle.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In glass bottles, those which absorb ultraviolet rays in order to prevent alteration of the contents and have a colorless and transparent property capable of accurately confirming the state of the contents are desired. Conventionally, glass for such a use has been proposed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 45-17794 and Japanese Patent Publication No. 5-354. The former is to add 0.2 to 0.5% by weight of cerium oxide and 0.05 to 0.3% by weight of neodymium oxide to soda lime glass. It is intended to correct the yellowish color by absorbing neodymium oxide, which is a decolorizing agent, so that the color becomes almost colorless. In the latter, the maximum length of the container is 250 mm or less, and 0.04 to 0.1% by weight of cerium oxide,
This is a soda lime glass bottle containing iron oxide of 0.065% or less. After all, adding cerium oxide absorbs ultraviolet rays, suppresses the content of iron oxide that promotes yellowishness, and limits the maximum length of the bottle to minimize the appearance of glass as yellow. is there.

[0003]

The former of the above-mentioned prior art is intended to eliminate the yellow or yellowish green color of cerium oxide by adding neodymium oxide which gives bluish purple to make it closer to colorless. However, neodymium oxide is expensive, and the amount to be added is difficult. If the amount is too small, the glass exhibits yellow or yellow-green, and if the amount is too large, the glass exhibits blue.

[0004] In the latter conventional technique, a large-sized bottle cannot be produced, and a sufficient amount of cerium is not added, so that a sufficient ultraviolet absorbing effect cannot be expected. Therefore, the color of the glass cannot be colorless, and the glass becomes yellowish.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems, and it is possible to obtain an ultraviolet-absorbing colorless transparent glass that is less expensive, more easily, and more nearly colorless.

[0006]

The present invention relates to a soda-lime glass containing 0.3 to 0.6% of cerium oxide and 0.05% or less of iron oxide by weight, and 0.02% of erbium oxide as a decolorizing agent. It is an ultraviolet-absorbing colorless and transparent glass characterized by adding about 0.07%.

In the present invention, an ultraviolet absorbing effect is obtained by adding cerium oxide. If the amount of cerium oxide added is too small, the ultraviolet absorbing effect is weak, and if it is too large, the glass develops a strong color and cannot be colorless and transparent.
An amount of about 0.6% is preferable because the two elements are well-balanced. Table 1 shows the relationship between the cerium oxide addition rate and the ultraviolet absorption rate. In this table, the ultraviolet absorption was defined and calculated as the average absorption in the corresponding wavelength range. That is, the average value is obtained by subtracting the transmittance for each 10 nm from 100.
As described above, when the added amount of cerium oxide is increased, the ultraviolet absorption rate is improved. When the content is 0.3 to 0.6%, a practical ultraviolet absorptivity can be obtained. In addition, the thickness of the glass in Table 1 is 3 mm.

[Table 1]

By adding cerium oxide, iron present as an impurity in the glass is oxidized. Therefore, 2
The green coloring of the trivalent iron ion decreases, and the yellow color of the trivalent iron ion increases. This increases the brightness Y,
The main wavelength λd shifts to the longer wavelength side, and the color of the glass becomes yellowish. By suppressing the content of iron oxide, which is an impurity, to 0.05% or less, yellow or yellow-green coloring of the glass is minimized. In addition, it can be easily performed by those skilled in the art to reduce the content of iron oxide to 0.05% or less.

The glass cannot be made colorless only by reducing the content of iron oxide. Therefore, in the present invention, 0.02 to 0.07% of erbium oxide is used as a decolorizing agent.
Is added. The yellowish color of cerium oxide is corrected to the pale pink color of erbium oxide and becomes almost colorless.
The color development of erbium oxide is extremely stable, hardly affected by changes in the atmosphere or an oxidizing agent such as cerium oxide, and a desired effect can be easily obtained.

[0010]

EXAMPLES Examples of the present invention are shown in Table 2. 0.3%, 0.4% or 0.6% of cerium oxide was added, and a sample having a decolorizing agent added thereto (Example) and a sample not containing the decoloring agent (Comparative Example) were prepared as tristimulus values. Was measured. The thickness of the glass in each sample was 10 mm,
The content of iron oxide is 0.038%. The tristimulus values are such that the brightness Y is 85% or more, the main wavelength λd is 565 to 575 nm,
When the stimulus purity Pe is in the range of 1.5% or less, it can be determined that the color filter has substantially good colorless transparency. However, the main wavelength is most preferably in the range of 568 to 572 nm. In all of the examples in which erbium oxide was added as a decolorizing agent, the tristimulus values were within this most preferred range,
It can be determined that it has good colorless transparency. Visual inspection also confirmed that all of the examples had improved colorless and transparent properties as compared with the comparative examples, and were good colorless and transparent glasses.

[Table 2]

[0011]

According to the present invention, since cerium oxide is added to absorb ultraviolet rays and erbium oxide is used as a decolorizing agent, glass having high colorless and transparent can be obtained easily at low cost.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Cerium oxide 0.3 to 0.6% by weight
%, Soda lime glass containing iron oxide 0.05% or less, erbium oxide 0.02 to 0.07% as a decolorizing agent
UV-absorbing colorless transparent glass characterized by the addition of