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Originally Posted by chevyjaxon
tempering makes the glass harder and more brittle but the upside is yes it is stronger but will still turn into big shards if broken, safety glass is the glass that turns into cubes if it is shattered it is simply laminated, it was invented by auto manufacturers to make windshields more safe for you to fly through if you hit a pole  |
Windshields are WORSE to go through. They are, like previous stated, Laminated and not tempered. So, they go into razar shards and still stay glued together so you have to RIP through it in an accident. The reason for laminating is so they to not fall in your lap when an object, like a rock, hits the windshield. And if they were tempered, said rock would Instantly completely shatter a tempered windshield.
tempering is acctually an act of making the "skin" of the glass shrink. It shrinks and in essence compresses the inside of the glass. Think of the tempering like a balloon. The air inside is being squeezed and compressed by the balloon. Now puncture the balloon, alll the air instantly escapes, because the "skin" is not there. Same thing happens with tempered. Deviate the "skin" and it just completely lets go
BTW, even the edges are tempered. Meaning, if you punctured or chipped the edge of say, a 1" thick sheet of tempered glass, the whole sheet is a goner.