Is The Acrylic (Plexiglass) Lens Identical To The Glass Lens?
Is the acrylic lens identical to the glass lens?
Acrylic lenses are not glass lenses.
Acrylic lenses are actually in the acrylic transparent plate side of the plating of a thin layer of paint, and the other side can become a mirror, you can clearly shape the object in the mirror. Acrylic (PMMA) by the English Acrylics transliteration, is the acrylic and methacrylic chemicals known. Acrylic board weather resistance long, strong impact, the density is 1.2%.
Glass lenses are painted with silver before! But the mercury-coated mirror reflects the light is not very strong, making time-consuming, mercury and toxic, so now changed in electroplating glass, in fact, with the production of acrylic lenses is the same. English name: STANDARD (definitions of terms relating to flat glass) Chemical stability: glass resistance to gas, water, acid, alkali, salt or a variety of chemical reagents erosion ability, mirror scratch resistance, temperature resistance of 100 ℃. Density: The mass of the glass unit volume.
