This study ains for the ability of using granite waste emerged by sawing granite in
Syria, which is considered as a negative effect on the environment , which pollutes the air ,
people, animal and planit. The chemical composition of granite waste w
as defined and it
was clear that it is same as the chemical composition of glass . so we did this work by
transforming the waste caused by granite sawmills to the glassy state.
The preparation for the glassy states were done py two methods , the first by adding
sand and sodium carbonate and second by adding borax and sodum cab ronate and the
heattreatment was done at (900-1000 c) . The assurance of getting the glassy state through
the XRD measure to the resulted samples was done . and the chemical composition of glass
resulted by alkaline melting way was identified , then doing the chemical analyses needed
to signify the percentage of oxides of the elements and in the second step of the worke ,
they have made tests on the resulted glass (its intensity, its resistance of acids and bases ).
The decrease of intensity was noticed by the increase of silica concentration , sodium
oxide and borates oxide , and it was noticed the increase of the resistance to the acids and
alkalis by the increase of silica concentration and sodium oxide , but through adding the
borates, the result was a glass less resistant to the acids and bases .
