A better knowledge of glass properties and the mastery of the manufacture means multiplied the applications. In a particular conditions of preparation safety glasses, armoured glasses, anti-striped glasses, fire-resistant glasses, colored glasses, reflexion resistant glasses, sound proofing or thermal materials, photochromic glasses… can be obtained.

The glass applications are as numerous as its properties. Current applications:

• crockery, containers
• windows and glass constructions
• optics
• decoration
• laboratory glass etc.

• use of optical fibres in the telecommunication industry. The indexes of their glass constitution are determined in order to guide the light along the fibres
• insulation by glass fibres
• ceramic hob
• sealing of glass in the electronic industry, by using low melting glass to lay out several insulating layers of thin glass on the electronic circuits
• dental glass: the ceramic false teeth are made essentially of glass
• biological glasses: some phosphate-based glasses are used as a glue in the bone prosthesis putting up
• vitrification of wastes …