ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the crystal structure of tellurium dioxide (TeO2). It de‡nes the formation ranges for tellurite glasses and describes their general physical characteristics, touching on color, density, molar volume, and short-and intermediate-range structural properties, including bonding. The chapter summarizes the main systems for producing and analyzing pure and binary glasses, as well as many key concepts developed later in the book: phase diagramming and immiscibility, structure models, ‡ber preparation, and glass-forming ranges for multicomponent tellurite glasses, nonoxide-tellurite glasses (chalcogenide glasses), halide tellurite glasses (chalcohalide glasses), mixed oxyhalide tellurite glasses, new tellurite glass systems, density and molar volume, and applications of tellurite glasses.
