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Toughened glass which is also known as tampered glass is stronger than the normal glass because it is subjected to chemical and thermal treatments while processing. The internal stress of these glasses is balanced to increase the strength. These are tough to break and when they do break, they don’t have those sharp edges which can hurt someone. Toughened glass are used at many places like in applications which demand a strong glass, windows of homes and vehicles, tables and glasses fitted on doors, etc. Building up huge structures of glass always requires the toughened glass to be used because of its exceptional strength. Some of the properties of these glasses to which people must be acquainted with are as follows:

1. Its strength is the main property because of which it is widely used.

2. When they fail, they break up into very tiny pieces thus rendering harmless compared to the normal sharp edged broken glasses.

3. Toughened glass is prone to get damaged by Hydrofluoric acid.

In the year 1927, automobile industries and manufacturers started using laminated safety glass for the windshields of their automobiles. To make the normal glass stronger, a plastic film known as polyvinyl butyral was used between the layers of the glass. These are very tough to penetrate and can be used to stop bullets from penetrating through. Following are some other advantages of the safety glass along with its uses:

• It does not allow the passage for high frequency sound reducing disturbance and noise pollution.

• The ultraviolet radiation of the sun which is very harmful to humans and furniture is blocked by these glasses.

• The thermometers which we use to measure are body temperature is made up of this glass.

Some of the other things which use this glass are greenhouse windows, partitions at the offices, etc.

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