Concept:
The crown of a glass melting furnace is exposed to very high temperatures and vapors from the glass batch. It requires refractories with good high-temperature stability.
Step 1: Silica refractories have excellent performance at high temperatures.
Step 2: They have high refractoriness and good resistance to deformation at furnace crown temperatures.
Step 3: In glass melting furnaces, silica bricks are commonly used in the crown area.
Step 4: Therefore, the refractory used for the crown of glass melting furnace is:
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