  Operation and performance of the Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) mostly
depend on the quality and characteristics of the electrode materials. The
India-based Neutrino Observatory collaboration has chosen glass RPCs as the
active detector elements for its Iron Calorimeter detector and is going to
deploy RPCs in an unprecedented scale. Therefore, it is imperative that we
study the electrode material aspects in detail. We report here, systematic
characterization studies on the glasses from two manufacturers. RPC detectors
were built using these glasses and performances of the same were compared with
their material properties.
