What is Macor used for?

What is Macor used for?

Fixtures. Macor® is used as an electrode support and burner block in several industrial high heat, electrical cutting operations due to its low thermal conductivity and excellent electrical properties.

What material is Macor?

glass
MACOR® can be considered unique as its composition comprises 55% fluorophlogopite mica and 45% borosilicate glass. Corning’s unique production process results in Macor’s microstructure that is a key to its versatile properties. MACOR® offers a unique combination of properties, unlike any other technical material.

Is Macor a ceramic?

MACOR® – The Genuine Machinable Glass Ceramic Unique material, enabling the performance of a technical ceramic with the versatility of an advanced polymer, MACOR® MGC offers opportunities for value add across many industries.

Is Macor alumina?

Macor® has a continuous use temperature of 800°C and a peak temperature of 1000°C. It’s an excellent insulator at high voltages, various frequencies and high temperatures, and won’t outgas in vacuum environments. Alumina. Alumina has good mechanical and electrical properties leading to a wide range of applications.

What are the advantages of glass-ceramic?

Glass-ceramics usually have between 30% [m/m] and 90% [m/m] crystallinity and yield an array of materials with interesting properties like zero porosity, high strength, toughness, translucency or opacity, pigmentation, opalescence, low or even negative thermal expansion, high temperature stability, fluorescence.

What is the thermal conductivity of carbon steel?

45 W/(m/K)
Carbon steels represent the group with the highest thermal conductivity averaging at 45 W/(m/K). Steels containing over 0.1% carbon (depending on the thickness) can be hardened by a heat treatment to increase the metal’s strength.

How do you clean Macor?

Cleaning MACOR® Machinable Glass Ceramic

1. Ultrasonic cleaning is very effective. If ultrasonics are not available, cleaning with a soft bristle brush is acceptable.
2. Following the detergent wash, the MACOR® is rinsed in clean water.
3. Final rinse can be isopropyl alcohol 70% minimum or acetone to promote drying.

How is zerodur made?

Transparent glass-ceramic with zero expansion ZERODUR® glass-ceramic from SCHOTT is an inorganic non-porous lithium aluminum silicon-oxide material made by controlled volume crystallization. It contains a crystallized phase and a rest glass phase, which creates this exceptional material’s unique properties.

What are the properties of glass?

Following are the properties and characteristics of the glass.

• Hardness and Brittleness. It is a hard material as it has great impact resistance against applied load.
• Weather Resistance.
• Insulation.
• Chemical Resistance.
• Colour and Shape Varieties.
• Transparency.
• Fire Resistant Glazing.
• Property Modification.

What does higher thermal conductivity mean?

Thermal conductivity, frequently represented by , is a property that relates the rate of heat loss per unit area of a material to its rate of change of temperature. Materials with a higher thermal conductivity are good conductors of thermal energy.

What are the properties of Macor glass ceramic?

MACOR ® Machinable Glass Ceramic (MGC) has a continuous use temperature of 800 o C and a peak temperature of 1000 o C. Its coefficient of thermal expansion readily matches most metals and sealing glasses. It is non-wetting, exhibits zero porosity, and unlike ductile materials, won’t deform.

What are the advantages of using Macor MGC?

Unique material, enabling the performance of a technical ceramic with the versatility of an advanced polymer, MACOR® MGC offers opportunities for value add across many industries.

What makes Corning Glass Macor a good material?

Building on Corning’s 160 years of innovation, MACOR ® machinable glass ceramic is a solid, trusted foundation that can help you realize your designs quicker. Its unique combination of properties makes it an easily machinable, versatile, and high performing material even in harsh operating environments where precision is a necessity.

What can Macor be used for on the ground?

Large pieces of MACOR have also been used in a NASA spaceborne gamma radiation detector. On the ground, medical device manufacturers also appreciate MACOR’s machinability and dimensional stability.