Behavior of Bubbles in Glassmelts: I, Dissolution of a Stationary Bubble Containing a Single Gas

Abstract

The quasi‐stationary approximation was used to calculate the rates of dissolution of O 2 and CO 2 gas bubbles from a soda‐lime glassmelt. An analytic expression for the bubble radius as a function of time, R(t) , was obtained when surface tension was neglected and numerical results for R(t) were found when surface‐tension effects were included. These results were compared with those found by previous investigators. Also, an asymptotic expression for R (t) was derived and used to calculate bubble dissolution times.