Also, this glass is less than dense than the usual soda-lime glass and with a relatively low refractive index. Due to these various properties, this glass is most preferred for many uses in the glass industry. Besides laboratory glassware, borosilicate glassware is also used to make microwave glass cookware, due to its resistance to heat. This is the reason it is also used to make high quality beverage glassware, as it increases the durability and also the dishwasher compatibility!

Borosilicate glass is also used in making aquarium heaters, flashlights, guitar slides, high intensity discharge lamps, etc. Even astronomical reflecting telescopes use borosilicate glass due to its low coefficient of expansion with heat. Besides these, borosilicate glass also has its use in the semiconductor industry and in the making of thermal insulation tiles of the famed Space Shuttle! Due to its high resistance and relatively inert nature, borosilicate glasses are also used for immobilisation and disposal of radioactive waste. Thus, this is a glass that can said to be the jack of all trades indeed!