▲ | jzelinskie 11 hours ago | |
I watched a video recently that dove deep into this as well[1]. It turns out there's not an easy way to figure out if it's borosilicate other than if it has "made in France" on it or if you know it was purchased in Europe. AFAICT, you can't really buy borosilicate Pyrex in the US. The video does also show off a cool "mineral oil test" to tell the difference, but probably is only effective if you had something to compare it against. My takeaway though was that I need to thrift some Corningware, though! | ||
▲ | foofoo12 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Mineral oil test bookmark: https://youtu.be/2DKasz4xFC0?feature=shared&t=873 It's a non destructive test. Quote from the video (with funny youtube transcription spelling errors): "Without getting too technical, the gist is if you put the mineral oil in a vessel made of boroilic and then dip another glass made of boroilicate into it, that glass will seem to disappear while others will not. So I filled a vintage what I think is made of borosilicate Pyrex vessel with mineral oil. Then it dipped in a vintage what I think is made of boro silicut loaf pan and it seemed to disappear right before my eyes. Eureka I thought the experiment works well until I dipped a new Pyrex piece lowercase that I know is not made of borocyic and it disappeared too. Once again, another spokesman at the Cording Museum of Glass that I reached out to said that even the mineral test isn't a sure thing. According to Brady Spalling, he says in order for glass to quote unquote disappear in oil, the glass being submerged must have a similar refractory index, which allows light to pass through both without significantly bending. Mineral oil and borosyic do have similar refractory indexes. So what you've heard is correct. This method is often used to quickly ascertain whether a glass object is borosyicate. However, variability of glass recipes makes it difficult to rely solely upon this method. In short, it may work and it may not." | ||
▲ | fmajid 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Soda-lime glass has a greenish hue (look at it sideways). Borosilicate is blueish. |