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2. Tempered glass - Wikipedia

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   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 .

3. Plate glass - Wikipedia

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   Plate glass is often used in windows. Fragment of a Roman window glass plate dated to 1st to 4th century CE. Plate glass, flat glass or sheet glass is a type of glass, initially produced in plane form, commonly used for windows, glass doors, transparent walls, and windscreens. For modern architectural and automotive applications, the flat glass ...

4. Safety glass - Wikipedia

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   Toughened glass is processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass. [6] Tempering, by design, creates balanced internal stresses which causes the glass sheet, when broken, to crumble into small granular chunks of similar size and shape instead of splintering into random, jagged shards.

5. Glazing (window) - Wikipedia

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   Glazing, which derives from the Middle English for 'glass', is a part of a wall or window, made of glass. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Glazing also describes the work done by a professional " glazier ". Glazing is also less commonly used to describe the insertion of ophthalmic lenses into an eyeglass frame.

6. Nippon Sheet Glass - Wikipedia

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   Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. (日本板硝子株式会社, Nihon Ita-Garasu Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese glass manufacturing company. In 2006, it acquired Pilkington of the United Kingdom . This makes NSG/Pilkington one of the four largest glass companies in the world alongside another Japanese company Asahi Glass , Saint-Gobain , and ...

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