TY - JOUR A1 - Deubener, Joachim A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Behrens, H. A1 - Heide, G. T1 - Water and the glass transition temperature of silicate melts JF - Journal of non-crystalline solids N2 - Literature data on the effect of water on the glass transition in silicate melts are gathered for a broad range of total water content cw from 3 × 10-4 to 27 wt%. In terms of a reduced glass transition temperature Tg*=Tg/TgGN, where TgGN is Tg of the melt containing cw?0.02 wt% total water, a uniform dependence of Tg* on total water content (cw) is evident for silicate melts. Tg* decreases steadily with increasing water content, most strongly at the lowest water content where H2O is dominantly dissolved as OH. For water-rich melts, the variation of Tg* is less pronounced, but it does not vanish even at the largest water contents reported (?27 wt%). Tg* vs. cw is fitted by a three-component model. This approach accounts for different transition temperatures of the dry glass, hydroxyl and molecular water predicting Tg* as a weighted linear combination of these temperatures. The required but mostly unknown water speciation in the glasses was estimated using IR-spectroscopy data for hydrous sodium trisilicate and rhyolite. PY - 2003 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-3093(03)00472-1 SN - 0022-3093 VL - 330 SP - 268 EP - 273 PB - North-Holland Publ. Co. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-3120 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -