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Glass Beads manufactured from premium quality soda lime glass.

Plastic:
Used as a reinforcing filler in thermoplastic and thermosetting moulding compounds. Improves stiffness, heat distortion, shrinkage and flow properties.

Surface Treatments:
Chemically inert, non-magnetic, non-inflammable and non-explosive they may be used to remove surface contaminants prior to treatment, enabling surfaces to be cleaned, textured, decorated or peened without damage to the base material.

Grade Mesh Nominal size microns
10-50 325+ 1-44
45-85 325-170 44-88
55-100 270-140 53-105
     
Property Unit Typical specifications
Specific gravity   2.45-2.55
Hardness Moh's 6
Refractive Index   1.51-1.52
Oil absorption g/100g 17
Coeff.thermal exp. /k 7.75x10-6
Tensile Modulus N/mm2 6.89x104
Flexural Modulus N/mm2 2.96x
Poissons Ratio   0.21
Volume Resistivity GOhmm 300
Dielectric Strength kV/cm 4500
Dielectric Constant x 1Khz 7.6
Power Factor   0.9


Chemical Analysis
SiO2 72.80
Al2O3 1.70
Fe2O3 0.16
CaO 8.50
NA2O 12.50
MgO 3.40
K2O 1.0
Beads conforming to mil.spec G-9954A and S-13165C are also available from stock.