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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - A heavy metal-free glass developed by Corning Inc. will trim production and recycling costs at a time when prices for the super-thin screens used in liquid-crystal-display televisions are falling more sharply than ever.
Corning said Tuesday its Eagle XG glass is the first in the LCD industry to be completely free of arsenic as well as other heavy metals such as barium and antimony and halides like chlorine and fluorine. Those can produce potentially harmful byproducts during manufacturing.
"This is one of the most significant glass inventions in a generation," Peter Bocko, Corning's director of display-technology research, said in a telephone interview. "It reduces the overall cost all the way from digging stuff out of the ground to the end of life of the display."
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