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Answer by innisfree for Why glass always breaks into sharp pieces?

Ordinary glass has an irregular 'amorphous' molecular structure. That means that every pane has a unique, random 'fingerprint' of weak points, at which the glass might shatter.When it shatters, it...

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Answer by Naptzer for Why glass always breaks into sharp pieces?

Say you have a piece of glass which is a thick surface (this is the case for drinking glasses, lightbulbs, window glasses...) that you break. Necessarily with every smooth piece there is a sharp piece...

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Why glass always breaks into sharp pieces?

I understand that common glass and pottery (though not, for example, the glass of a car's windscreen) breaks very easily because it is very brittle and it has a great number of "cracks" in its...

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