Researchers used Linkam’s high temperature TS1500 stage (shown above) to quench silica glass from 1100°C, studying the resulting mechanical properties of the glass in order to understand the effects of heating, quenching and compression on the properties of glass.
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Guerette, M. et al. Structure and Properties of Silica Glass Densified in Cold Compression and Hot Compression. Sci. Rep. 5, 15343; doi: 10.1038/srep15343 (2015).