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New Journal of Glass and Ceramics, 2012, 2, 41-50 41 /10.4236/njgc.2012.21007 Published Online January 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/njgc) Effect of Ceramic Crucibles on Magneto-Optical PbO-Bi O -B O Glasses Properties 2 3 2 3 Qiuping Chen, Qiuling Chen, Monica Ferraris Department of Material Science Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. Email: qiuling.chen@polito.it Received October 2nd, 2011; revised November 23rd, 2011; accepted December 3rd, 2011 ABSTRACT Heavy-metal-oxide (HMO) glasses attract much interest in many applications such as Faraday rotators, current sensors, etc., in the area of magneto-optic effects due to their unique magnetic-optical property, high refractive index and other interesting properties. However, during the melt-quenching process of these glasses, the high corrosive nature of the melt to the crucibles makes the fabrication of HMO glasses complicated and the properties of the obtained glasses show strong dependence on the crucible materials. Literatures reported that the gold and platinum crucibles are not suitable due to their contamination to the melt glasses, ceramic crucible was considered suitable for the melting of HMO glasses. In this work, magnetic-optical glasses within the system of PbO-Bi O -B O have been prepared using different kinds 2 3 2 3 of ceramic crucibles for the aim of finding the most suitable crucible for melting HMO glasses. The glass properties in terms of Verdet constant, thermal stability and UV-Vis-IR transmittance in function of different crucibles were studied and reported. It was found that the same batch of glasses prepared under same conditions (melting temperature, melting time and annealing process), but in different ceramic crucibles (coded