Glass Polishing Additives: Their Benefits And Working

The glass on your table top or windshield of car looks pristine when it is clean and clear. Cleaning glass is pretty easy; you can do it with just some plain water or soap mixed with water. However, keeping the class clear is not an easy task if there is even a tiny scratch on the upper surface. To clean such glass surfaces you need glass polishing additives. Mix the additive with glass polishing powder and get back the pristine look of glass.

Glass Polishing Additives And Their Uses

These additives are mostly made of a number of various chemicals such as praseodymium oxide, Cerium dioxide, lanthanum oxide along with trace amounts of silicon oxide, aluminium oxide, calcium oxide etc. These additives impart strength to the polishing powder. You need to make a polishing paste with these additive chemicals.

Glass is not only used as table tops or car windshields. It has a variety of usage. Various properties of glass are useful in making different products. However, glass surfaces get defaced if there is even a slight scratch. Fortunately, such surface scratches can be removed by polishing. But glass polishing to remove scratches is not like any other polishing. Here you need to rub glass surface with abrasive substances that would do away with the scratch, but not result in new scratches. This is where glass polishing additives play a huge role.

Benefits Of Additives

Glass surfaces may develop scratches and develop imperfections due to the action of dust and other particles over time. If dust settles on glass surfaces it may cause minor scratches. To remove these you can add additives to glass polishing powders. With proper use of these additives, the surface can get back its look.

Additives help to strengthen the polishing powder which in turn can do its job better.

Additives also result in long lasting lustre. You may not need to polish the surface within few months.

Additives have the ability to prevent abrasive sediments from settling on glass surfaces and thereby help you in more ways than one.

How Additives Work

Additives for glass polishing have strong polishing and cutting property and they work with precision. The granular chemicals present in the additives can cut through glass surfaces and render them smooth. The combination of ingredients in the additives works in a combined mechanical-chemical process. While the granules rub the surface, they also set off a chemical process. These two processes go on simultaneously and result in long lasting polished glass. This is why glass polishing with additives results in long term polish and shine.

Author’s Bio

Priya Arora is an expert in colloidal chemistry. She delivers lectures on glass polishing additives and also writes about various properties of glass.