Talk:Devitrification

Can glass wool used for insulation devitrify?

It was alarming to read the statement that glass wool used for insulation could devitrify and turn into a powder. As it is written, it implies that such devitrication could occur under normal circumstances. Even a small amount of devitrication, for example on the surfaces of the glass fibres, would produce a powder that, if inhaled, would be a serious health hazard. I added a citation-needed tag to clarify this. I saw that there is no such claim in the section on health problems of glass wool (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_wool#Health_problems). My own limited research shows that glass wool does not devitrify at temperatures less than 1000° C (https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/40665547/The_thermal_transformation_of_Man_Made_V20151206-17005-1bln4hv.pdf?1449398293=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DThe_thermal_transformation_of_Man_Made_V.pdf&Expires=1617430798&Signature=eIeOOSDjiXyQ0v1LbJtP9uGaXhLfFTRm3iEBf8sE6jVc3GPjhTnVYU4WnZj6DpPPxHCVWuaEz067Omryi2av2~48cp7wa3KwI0Bx8o8dnuprLy3MBNq0e2BV9bSZt0XIRA8mYFM-zBi-CD~iDFt5lWzr0AhXfTGtHmKSbiLnT0ye0M~Ie9GYe5knzFD00Wc-yyIglmrRjFlDN9Wo6xCNeGS5sQ1nGHJ0kEFqJh4-ZatLG8RUcfHaCOz6YlysUmal0FTfzZ8lRADt0tG-UcFoZkRY2QXioRYtwRKqskL1QnR2zSwN2d~57KU7R8TEmob1kQInXj7RL-nSBUKRLdgjEg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA). Help! Robert P. O'Shea (talk) 05:50, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Your link appears to be inaccessible. But if you have a reliable source indicating that glass wool does not devitrify, and the statement in the article is unsourced, you should simply remove it. Leave this on the talk page to document the reason. --Kent G. Budge (talk) 14:45, 3 April 2021 (UTC)