It is sometimes also called window glass.
Float glass is a sheet material used in windows.
Float glass is the most widely used form of glass today and is produced by a process of floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal usually molten tin.
The float glass process is.
Modern windows are made from float glass.
However the float process which is very efficient now dominates the market for certain thin flat glass products that used to be made using the sheet process.
With a natural greenish hue and translucent nature it is capable of transmitting about 87 of the incident light and unlike sheet glass float glass provides users with a.
It floats on the surface hence the name and spreads out to form a level uniform surface.
This method gives the sheet uniform thickness and very flat surfaces.
Clear float glasses are highly popular in the construction of architectural exteriors and interiors of the building.
For modern architectural and automotive applications the flat glass is sometimes bent after production of the plane sheet.
Float glass is less expensive to produce than machine made plate glass.
Float glass is essentially a super smooth distortion free glass which is used for designing other glass items such as laminated glass heat toughened glass and so on.
Residential windows desk tops picture frames and so forth were typically made with sheet glass.
Today glass for commercial use is almost entirely float glass and plate glass is used only in very rare cases.
Made in the form of a sandwich consisting of an interlayer of transparent plastic material such as celluloid between two sheets of plate or sheet glass.
Float glass is the most commonly used in glass windows.
The thickness is determined by the speed at which the solidifying glass is taken off the bath.
Plate glass flat glass or sheet glass is a type of glass initially produced in plane form commonly used for windows glass doors transparent walls and windscreens.
It also has fewer irregularities.
Float glass is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal typically tin although lead and other various low melting point alloys were used in the past.
Used in mirrors windows curtain walls and doors.
It has wide application in residential structures.