Shattering Across The Floor We Move Like Broken Glass

When tempered glass breaks.

Shattering across the floor we move like broken glass.

Binding in the frame. When you see an actor break a bottle over someone s head the bottle is usually made from candy glass. Frame related breakage is also a norm and usually the face of spontaneous shattering. On saturday night a large glass bowl rolled off my drying rack and onto the kitchen tile.

Broken edges can still be sharp but the pieces aren t usually strong enough to pierce the sole of the foot. The plan we had for our lives seems like a distant memory now as we look at the shattered glass spread across the floor. We are left to pick up the pieces. We asked two engineers.

While this may happen suddenly the root cause is usually the minor damages on the edges of the glass. The tidal wave of shattered glass sprayed over 10 feet away in iridescent bits. Breakaway glass also known as sugar or candy glass is an easy to shatter substitute for real glass. He says the cracks move at speeds up to 3 000 miles per hour.

At times our mirrors will fall and shatter into pieces and we lose the clarity we once had. Our reflection is instead fragmented into thousands of tiny pieces. The glass will expand and contract and if there isn t any space within the frame the stress will ultimately cause the glass to shatter. Even after its shockingly.