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Publication
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Paper
Crystallization kinetics of high-cordierite glass
Abstract
Crystallization kinetics of high-cordierite (2MgO · 2Al2O3 · 5SiO2) powdered glass containing P2O5 and B2O3 were studied using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and differential thermal analysis (DTA). Metastable high-quartz, which has a structure similar to high-cordierite, appeared first. In addition to the main phase of high-cordierite, two other phases (forsterite and protoenstatite) appear with an increase in temperature. The overall activation energy of crystallization, 303.5 kJ/mol, of high-cordierite was computed by using Marseglia's equation based on DTA traces taken at different heating rates. This result is in fair agreement with that (301.9 kJ/mol) calculated using the Johnson-Mehl-Avrami equation from the temperature dependence of the fraction of cordierite crystallized in glass as measured by XRD. The rate-determining step of crystallization in glass of this system is concluded to be a volume diffusion process governed by the thin boundary layer produced at a glass-crystal interface following surface nucleation. © 1994.