Eli5: Why does ceramic break tempered glass so easily.

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Eli5: Why does ceramic break tempered glass so easily.

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There is nothing special about ceramic that breaks glass easily. Glass is just very brittle to begin with so if it encounters anything harder than itself, the lack of flexibility in glass causes it to shatter. Ceramic just happens to be a common household material that’s harder than glass but if you had diamond floors that would work just as well.