PROCESS FOR MELTING GLASS AND GLASS

摘要

[PROBLEMS] To provide a process for melting glass which enables long-period and repeated melting of SnO-P2O5 glasses, which glasses are liable to corrode a melting vessel made of platinum, and which little causes the deterioration of glass with constituents of a melting vessel even if the constituents thereof penetrate into molten glass in the melting step; and glass. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A process for melting glass by melting a glass raw material batch in a melting vessel, characterized in that the melting vessel is one made of zirconium or a zirconium alloy.