Glostertube - Tubes and rods

SIMAX™ tubes and rods

SIMAX™ borosilicate glass is an equivalent member with internationally defined and throughout the world acknowledged group of borosilicate technical glassware of the class 3.3 conforming to ISO 3585 and DIN ISO 3585 and it is completely compatible with other ones conforming present standard.

Physical properties of SIMAX
Coefficient of mean linear thermal expansion by ISO 7991, DIN 52 328 method	a (20¡C, 300¡C)	K^-1	3,3x10^-6
Specific gravity	a 20¡C	g.cm^-3	2,23
Transformation temperature t_gby ISO 7884-7, DIN 52 324 method	h =10^13,2dPa.s	¡C	540
Annealing point by ISO 7884-7, E DIN 52 312, Part 7 method	h =10^14,7dPa.s	¡C	560
Softening point by ISO 7884-6, DIN 52 312,part 6 method	h =10^7,6dPa.s	¡C	825
Max. recommended operation temperature		¡C	500

Time schedule of heating and cooling
	heating			cooling
Range of temperature	20-550 ¡C	550¡C	550-490¡C		490-440¡C	440-40¡C
max. wall thickness	¡C.min^-1	¡C.min^-1	¡C.min^-1		¡C.min^-1	¡C.min^-1
3 mm	140	5	14		28	140
6 mm	30	10	3		6	30
9 mm	15	18	1,5		3	15
12 mm	8	30	0,6		1,6

Resistance against sudden temperature changes
Wall thickness	Sudden changes ¡C
1mm	303¡C
3mm	175¡C
6mm	124¡C
10mm	96¡C

Glostertube supplies different thickness tubes within 4 and 150mm diameter, capillaries, rods, flat rods, oval tubes, triangular tubes, flower shaped tubes and tubes with inside groves.
Ask our catalogue at infogloster@glostertube.com.

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