Device and method for melting a substance with the occurrence of a low level of contamination

摘要

An apparatus and a method for low-contamination melting of high-purity, aggressive and/or high-melting glass or glass-ceramic are provided. For this purpose, a melt is heated in a crucible or melting skull crucible by means of high-frequency radiation and is mixed or homogenized in the melting crucible. A gas nozzle, from which gas bubbles, e.g. oxygen bubbles (known as O2 bubbling), escape into the melt, is provided at the base of the crucible.