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lancerisdead t1_j1spgpu wrote

Tempered glass tends to be extremely hard to break, but once there’s a fracture, if pressure gets applied to it, it’ll basically explode like said. I’d guess there was a tiny fracture or crack from coming out of the runners and anything that touched it would have caused it to shatter like that. Very much not your fault.

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Thebombuknow t1_j1u0tyy wrote

Yeah, this happens constantly to glass side panels in the PC world. I've seen so many pictures of people's brand new computers with exploded tempered side panels. Once there is the tiniest of stress fractures, so much as tightening down a screw slightly too much can cause the glass to spontaneously explode.

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slavnar95 t1_j1u5w84 wrote

I had a tempered glass chair mat from costco. I liked it. However, I rolled off the edge with my chair and it just exploded into pieces of glass.

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