Type of safety glass processed to increase its strength
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A vandalised telephone booth made with tempered glass
Tempered or toughened glass is a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass. Tempering puts the outer surfaces into compression and the interior into tension. Such stresses cause the glass, when broken, to shatter into small granular chunks instead of splintering into jagged shards as ordinary annealed glass does. The granular chunks are less likely to cause injury.
Tempered glass is used for its safety and strength in a variety of applications, including passenger vehicle windows (apart from windshield), shower doors, aquariums, architectural glass doors and tables, refrigerator trays, mobile phone screen protectors, bulletproof glass components, diving masks, and plates and cookware.
separate tempered screen protectors for touchscreen devices sold as an accessory. Temperedglass can be made from annealed glass via a thermal tempering process...
self-regulatory program on the rollout of temperedglass in pubs, with most hotels and bars expected to change over to tempered beer glasses in six to 12 months...
include toughened glass (also known as temperedglass), laminated glass, and wire mesh glass (also known as wired glass). Toughened glass was invented in...
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with more than 120 glass panels. Each of these panels is three-layered and is a 5.1-centimetre-thick (2 in) slab of temperedglass. There are three long...
or broken temperedglass is the most popular form of fire glass used by consumers.[citation needed] Broken standard sheets of temperedglass are typically...
shield, or rear glass. It is the piece of glass opposite the windshield. Back glass is made from temperedglass, also known as safety glass, and when broken...
19th century, glassmakers discovered that uranium glass with certain mineral additions could be tempered at high temperatures, inducing varying degrees of...
larger break pattern than tempered, but because it holds its shape (unlike the "wet blanket" effect of tempered laminated glass) it remains in the opening...
some buildings. Most glass breakers are standalone devices containing a sharp pointed metal tip for glass-breaking temperedglass, and many also feature...
Borosilicate glass is a type of glass with silica and boron trioxide as the main glass-forming constituents. Borosilicate glasses are known for having...
glass, primarily temperedglass, which has been used in Australia. Beer garden Shot glass List of glassware "Last orders for traditional pint glass as...
plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet called a chopped strand mat, or woven into glass cloth. The plastic...
metallic and/or plastic material, while other materials such as mesh, temperedglass, acrylic, wood and even Lego bricks have appeared in many modern commercial...
Duralex is a French temperedglass tableware and kitchenware manufacturer located in La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin in Loiret, France. Using a technique developed...
Glass fiber (or glass fibre) is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass. Glassmakers throughout history have experimented with...
The finished product is brittle but can be laminated or tempered to enhance durability. Glass is typically inert, resistant to chemical attack, and can...
thicknesses from 3 to 10 mm (1/8" to 3/8"). Thicker glass is used in special applications. Laminated or temperedglass may also be used as part of the construction...
physical properties of temperedglass, disrupting surface compressive stress and causing the glass to shatter. Temperedglass, which is used for the side...
after increasing its temperedglass production capacity by installing a new furnace, the company began manufacturing toughened glass for other automobile...
Glass mullion system or glass fin system is a glazing system in which sheets of temperedglass are suspended from special clamps, stabilized by perpendicular...
The glass–liquid transition, or glass transition, is the gradual and reversible transition in amorphous materials (or in amorphous regions within semicrystalline...
to make cut glass objects. Regular, annealed glass can be broken apart this way but not temperedglass as the latter tends to shatter rather than breaking...
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