safety glass

safety glass
a pane made by joining two plates or panes of glass with a layer of usually transparent plastic or artificial resin between them that retains the fragments if the glass is broken.
[1920-25]

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      type of glass that, when struck, bulges or breaks into tiny, relatively harmless fragments rather than shattering into large, jagged pieces. Safety glass may be made in either of two ways. It may be constructed by laminating two sheets of ordinary glass together, with a thin interlayer of plastic, or it may be produced by strengthening glass sheets by heat treatment.

      In 1909 the first successful patent for safety glass was taken out in France by an artist and chemist, Édouard Bénédictus, who used a sheet of celluloid bonded between two pieces of glass. Other plastics were also tried, but in 1936 polyvinyl butyral (PVB) was found to possess so many safety-desirable properties that its use became universal. Bulletproof glass is usually built up using several glass and plastic components.

      In the heat-treatment method, glass sheets are tempered at about 650° C (1200° F), followed by sudden chilling. This treatment increases the strength of the glass sheets approximately sixfold. When such glass does break, it shatters into blunt granules.

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