TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Composition: (I) has a linear thermal expansion coefficient alpha (20-300) of 8x 10-6K-1 to 9x 10-6K-1. (I) comprises at least 0.1 mole.% of at least two components from refining active components comprising Fe2O3, CeO2 and SnO2, i.e. CeO2+SnO2+Fe2O3 is greater than 0.1, and/or SnO2 content is up to 0.5 wt.%. (I) up to economically or technically unavoidable residues in glass raw material is free of titanium dioxide, MgO, arsenic trioxide, antimony trioxide, vanadium pentoxide, bismuth oxide and/or lead oxide. (I) contains SiO2 (62-68 (preferably 63-67) mole.%), Al2O3 (10-12 (preferably 10.8-11.5) mole.%), B2O3 (0.0-0.7 (preferably 0.1-0.6) mole.%), Li2O (10.1-11.1 (preferably 10.3-10.8) mole.%), Na2O (8.6-9.8 (preferably 9-9.5) mole.%), K2O (0.0-0.3 (preferably 0.1-0.3) mole.%), MgO (0.00-0.08 (preferably 0.00-0.05) mole.%), CaO (0.5-1.7 (preferably 0.6-1.4) mole.%), ZnO (0.0-0.2 (preferably 0.0-0.1) mole.%), ZrO2 (1.5-2.1 (preferably 1.6-2) mole.%), P2O5 (0.0-0.3 (preferably 0.0-0.1) mole.%), Fe2O3 (0.003-0.080 mole.%), SnO2 (0.05-0.30 (preferably 0.1-0.2) mole.%), and CeO2 (0.04-0.10 (preferably 0.04-0.07) mole.%). Preferred Method: (I) is chemically prestressed, in which lithium-ions from (I) are exchanged with a larger ionic radius against ions, and/or thermally prestressed. (I) is thermally tempered using a conventional air tempering system for soda-lime glass with a heat transfer coefficient of 200-500 W m-2K-1 at 1-9 kPa blowing pressure. Preferred Components: The refining active component is halide salts, preferably sodium chloride and/or potassium chloride, where the refining agent content is 0.2-2 wt.% of the total composition. The refining active component is sulfate. EXAMPLE - Typical glass comprised of (in mole.%): silica (64.74); boron trioxide (0.14); alumina (11.05); lithium oxide (10.85); sodium oxide (9.75); potassium oxide (0.05); phosphorus pentoxide (0.01); calcium oxide (0.67); strontium oxide (0.04); zinc oxide (0.05); zirconium oxide (1.84); cerium oxide (0.04); tin dioxide (0.04); and ferric oxide (0.04), where (lithium oxide+alumina)/(sodium oxide+potassium oxide) is 2.23 mole.%, (lithium oxide/(lithium oxide+sodium oxide+potassium oxide)) is 0.53 mole.%, and calcium oxide+ferric oxide+zinc oxide+phosphorus pentoxide+boron trioxide +cerium oxide is 0.95 mole.%.