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Foreword ------- p.1

Minoru Matsumura

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Activities of NEW GLASS FORUM in 1999 ------- p.3

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Feature ArticlesGlass for Energy Conservation and Environment Preservation

Advanced house and energy ------- p.16

Osamu Ishikawa

The role of glass for use in photovoltaics ------- p.20

Hiroyuki Miyakawa

Role of Glass for high efficiency improvement of Air Conditioning ------- p.25

Takayoshi Saito

Solar Control Automotive Glazing LEGART ------- p.31

Hiroaki Kobayashi

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New Glass Research Topics

Specialty Glasses for Broad-Band Fiber Amplifiers ------- p.36

Yoshiaki Takeuchi

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Lectures for Newcomers

Purification of raw materials for optical fibers ------- p.46

Kenji Kobayashi

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Visit¡¡to¡¡Glass Research Institute

"Glass Science and Engineering Laboratory, Department of Materials Science, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo" ------- p.50

Hiroyuki Inoue

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Inside Topics in Developmant of

The Secret of Development of Light-weight Returnable Bottles ------- p.52

Yoshito Fujimura

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Introducing Homepages

Introduction of Nippon Silica Glass Home Page ------- p.56

Tetsuya Morimoto

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Topics of Meetings on Glass

Report on Symposium on Next-Generation Photonics Materials and Devices ------- p.57

Koji Fujita

"Report on The Second Symposium on Ceramic in Medicine, Biology and Biomimetics" ------- p.59

Kanji Tsuru

Report on the 16th meeting of Nippon Sheet Glass Foundation for Materials Science ------- p.61

Yasunori Arima

Report on the 10th Meeting on Glasses for Photonics ------- p.63

Syuji Matsumoto

Report on OFC'99 ------- p.65

Tomonori Kashiwada

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Project on measurements of the properties of molten glasses at high temperatures

Project on properties of high-temperature glass melts 'Standardization of measuring methods of high-temperature properties of new glasses' ------- p.67

Toshinobu Yoko

R&D Trends in Glass Manufacturing Processes: Developments in Glass Melts Properties and Simulation ------- p.70

Chikao Tanaka

Expectations of the Research Results ------- p.75

Shinji Kawachi

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Introduction of New Book

Preparation and Properties of Optical fibers from Colloidal Silica written by Syuichi Shibata ------- p.79

Yuichi Ohga

"'Properties, Processing and Applications of Glass and Rare Earth-Doped Glasses for Optical Fibers' edited by Dan Hewak" ------- p.81

Hiromichi Takebe

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