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Figure 10: Schematic diagram of the float process for making flat glass. A glass ribbon, soft enough to be workable, is fed from a glass-melting furnace and passed between rollers into the float bath. There, it floats on molten tin under a controlled atmosphere of nitrogen and hydrogen (N2/H2) that prevents oxidation of the tin. As the bulk of that glass begins to cool, the surface is heated and polished in order to remove surface blemishes and then allowed to cool also. The ribbon exits the float bath and passes through the annealing lehr, where it is cooled uniformly in order to prevent the formation of nonuniform internal stresses that may warp the glass. The cooled glass is then scored by diamond-tipped cutters, and individual sheets are separated and stacked.
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Figure 10: Schematic diagram of the float process for making flat glass. A glass...
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