Dataset from the bell and dean paper on the structure of vitreous silica

Nicholas A Mecholsky; Rachel Morin; Roman D Mecholsky; Stephen W Freiman; John J Mecholsky Jr

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2024.110734

Dataset from the bell and dean paper on the structure of vitreous silica

Data Brief. 2024 Jul 14:55:110734. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.110734. eCollection 2024 Aug.

Authors

Nicholas A Mecholsky¹, Rachel Morin¹, Roman D Mecholsky¹, Stephen W Freiman², John J Mecholsky Jr³

Affiliations

¹ Physics Department, 304 Hannan Hall, The Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC 20064, USA.
² Freiman Consulting, Potomac MD 20854, USA.
³ Materials Science & Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611, USA.

Abstract

Digitized data is presented based on the 1966 and 1972 seminal papers by R. J. Bell and P. Dean, which in turn are based on a physical ball and stick model of vitreous silica. The original Bell and Dean paper supports the random network theory for glass structure proposed by Zachariasen in 1932. The data were collected and digitized by verifying the data set in the Appendix of the Bell and Dean paper. One error in location was corrected. The dataset provides a convenient method to determine specific information about bond locations and angles of silica and oxygen atoms if researchers want to test theories of glass structure or fracture in amorphous materials.

Keywords: Ball-and-stick model; Digitized glass data; Glass structure; Random network theory; Vitreous silica structure; α-silica.