The crystallization
in glasses is a paradoxical phenomenon and
scarcely investigated. This work explores the non-isothermal crystallization
of a multicomponent alumino-borosilicate glass via
in situ
high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction, atomic pair distribution
function, and Raman spectroscopy. Results depict the crystallization
sequence as Ca
3
Al
2
O
6
and CaSiO
4
followed by LiAlO
2
with the final compound formation
of Ca
3
B
2
O
6
. These precipitations
occur in a narrow temperature range and overlap, resulting in a single
exothermic peak in the differential scanning calorimetry thermogram.
The concurrent nucleation of Ca
3
Al
2
O
6
and CaSiO
4
is intermediated by their corresponding hydrates,
which have dominantly short-range order. Moreover, the crystallization
of LiAlO
2
and Ca
3
B
2
O
6
is
strongly linked with the changes of structural units during the incubation
stage in non-isothermal heating. These findings clarify the crystallization
of multicomponent glass, which have been inferred from
ex
situ
reports but never evidenced via
in situ
studies.