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TIL about East Germany’s extremely durable drinking glass (ceramics.org)
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Superfest, chemically strengthened glass

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[–] 5 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

Fancy! I wonder how it would've compared to Duralex.

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  • [–] 4 points 51 minutes ago

    Chemically tempered glass is a great deal stronger than thermally tempered glass (up to 10x stronger than untreated glass vs. up to 2x, for an incredibly reductive yet illustrative oversimplification)

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