Phosphate glass

Dr. Alexis G. Pincus of the American Optical Company supplied aluminium phosphate glass samples for Manhattan Project-era Oak Ridge researchers, and was anecdotally called the inventor in 1945 in a Columbia University researcher's note by Aristid V. Grosse.

[2] Phosphate glasses are highly resistant to hydrofluoric acid.

With an addition of iron oxide, they act as efficient heat absorbers.

Iron phosphate and lead iron phosphate glass are alternatives to borosilicate glass for immobilization of radioactive waste.

[6] Some phosphate glasses are bio-compatible and water-soluble and are suited for use as degradable tissue and bone scaffolds within the human body.

The P 4 O 10 cagelike structure, resembling that of adamantane , which provides the basic building block for phosphate glass formers.