This page provides links to material that expands on the topics covered in the textbook.
Chapter 4: Roger French's site for calculating the Hamaker constant
Chapter 4: more on Hamaker
Chapter 8: The site of the ice laboratory at Dartmouth
Chapter 8: NIST's site for phase equilibria of ceramics
Chapter 9: The definition of a muffle
Chapter 11: The advanced computer code MARVIN
Chapter 13: MetaMorph site
Chapter 16: NIST Structural Ceramics Database
Chapter 16: NIST Fracture Property Data Summaries: Oxide Glasses
Chapter 16: NIST Fracture Toughness Data for Ceramics
Chapter 16: NIST Property Data Summaries: Sintered Alumina
Chapter 16: NIST Property Data Summaries: Silicon Carbide
Chapter 19: U.S. Geological Survey
With Mineral Commodity Summaries and Minerals Yearbook)
Chapter 20: Ube Industries in Japan, a commercial manufacture of Si3N4
Chapter 21: Bell Labs
Chapter 21: Corning Glass Company
Chapter 21: Corning Museum of Glass
Chapter 21: National Glass Association
Chapter 23: A commercial supplier of FDM equipment and software
Chapter 23: For molded glass lenses
Chapter 23: The Raku Museum
Chapter 23: Alfred's Museum
Chapter 23: For information on abrasive waterjets
Chapter 23: Pottery Making Illustrated
Chapter 31: A general site on capacitors
Chapter 32: Saphikon gives current examples of using alumina fibers in medicine
Chapter 35: The TheraSphere web site
Chapter 36: Makers of gemologist equipment
Chapter 36: The Diavik diamond mine in Canada
Chapter 36: Website for De Beers includes a history of the company
Chapter 36: Where to buy De Beers diamonds
Chapter 36: Where to see gemstones: Musee du Louvre, Paris
Chapter 36: Where to see gemstones: Smithsonian Institution
Chapter 36: Where to see gemstones: Tower of London
Chapter 37: Advanced Ceramics Technology Roadmap--Charting Our Course
Chapter 37: Precious metal prices and historical trends
Chapter 37: NuLife Glass of Wilmslow in Cheshire
Chapter 37: KEMET Corporation, manufacturer of solid tantalum capacitors and MLCCs
Chapter 37: European superconductivity consortium
Chapter 37: Oxonica website (find out about status of nanoparticle fuel efficiency trials)
Chapter 37: Detroit Edison website
Chapter 37: Ceramic Industry magazine
Chapter 37: Details on the Diavik mine
Chapter 4: more on Hamaker
Chapter 8: The site of the ice laboratory at Dartmouth
Chapter 8: NIST's site for phase equilibria of ceramics
Chapter 9: The definition of a muffle
Chapter 11: The advanced computer code MARVIN
Chapter 13: MetaMorph site
Chapter 16: NIST Structural Ceramics Database
Chapter 16: NIST Fracture Property Data Summaries: Oxide Glasses
Chapter 16: NIST Fracture Toughness Data for Ceramics
Chapter 16: NIST Property Data Summaries: Sintered Alumina
Chapter 16: NIST Property Data Summaries: Silicon Carbide
Chapter 19: U.S. Geological Survey
With Mineral Commodity Summaries and Minerals Yearbook)
Chapter 20: Ube Industries in Japan, a commercial manufacture of Si3N4
Chapter 21: Bell Labs
Chapter 21: Corning Glass Company
Chapter 21: Corning Museum of Glass
Chapter 21: National Glass Association
Chapter 23: A commercial supplier of FDM equipment and software
Chapter 23: For molded glass lenses
Chapter 23: The Raku Museum
Chapter 23: Alfred's Museum
Chapter 23: For information on abrasive waterjets
Chapter 23: Pottery Making Illustrated
Chapter 31: A general site on capacitors
Chapter 32: Saphikon gives current examples of using alumina fibers in medicine
Chapter 35: The TheraSphere web site
Chapter 36: Makers of gemologist equipment
Chapter 36: The Diavik diamond mine in Canada
Chapter 36: Website for De Beers includes a history of the company
Chapter 36: Where to buy De Beers diamonds
Chapter 36: Where to see gemstones: Musee du Louvre, Paris
Chapter 36: Where to see gemstones: Smithsonian Institution
Chapter 36: Where to see gemstones: Tower of London
Chapter 37: Advanced Ceramics Technology Roadmap--Charting Our Course
Chapter 37: Precious metal prices and historical trends
Chapter 37: NuLife Glass of Wilmslow in Cheshire
Chapter 37: KEMET Corporation, manufacturer of solid tantalum capacitors and MLCCs
Chapter 37: European superconductivity consortium
Chapter 37: Oxonica website (find out about status of nanoparticle fuel efficiency trials)
Chapter 37: Detroit Edison website
Chapter 37: Ceramic Industry magazine
Chapter 37: Details on the Diavik mine