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MY own experience supports the necessity for caution in using Bastie's toughened glass. Shortly after its introduction I had some graduated measures, and although they were sufficiently tough to bear the shock consequent on falling five or six feet to the ground, yet after a time some short scratches appeared on their surface, and these rapidly spreading till they nearly covered the whole of the glass, when but a slight touch was sufficient to make the measure fly into fragments. One placed on a shelf subject to rather rapid change of temperature, without any handling or apparent cause, broke up suddenly into tiny pieces, behaving, indeed, as if it were a Rupert's bomb.
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DRUCE, G. Toughened Glass. Nature 19, 5 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/019005f0
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