I’m sure we’ve all seen pictures online. Glass coffee and patio tables, oven doors, regular glass doors, and I even saw a set of glass *stairs* just today that had exploded in the middle of the night. What’s going on here?
(Unsure if this should be flaired physics or chemistry so I guessed. Or maybe it’s engineering?)
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