I don’t even remember it being dented in that spot. The physics of it are a mystery to me.
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I once clipped my glass shower saloon door style screen with my foundation bottle. And it fucking EXPLODED there were glass fragments everywhere. Utterly bizarre
Tempered glass can be a time bomb just waiting to go off. If done perfectly, it's a glass that is very strong (possibly to the point of being able to take bullets) in one direction but incredibly fragile in others.
But it can also get manufacturing defects that can make thermal expansion randomly trigger that extreme fragility. I had a tempered glass TV stand just spontaneously explode on me some years ago.
There was a bump involved, so it could have been purely working as intended but you hit it in an unlucky way, or maybe it was a combination of the two where it should have survived that hit but a defect caused it to shatter instead.
That's really interesting thanks
I was once helping my aunt move some old shower doors made of tempered glass, and as I was leaning one against the wall, it shattered in my hands. It was bizarre holding a heavy glass door one second, and only a few shards the next.
This happened with me and tempered pinball table glass. I didnt even touch anything. One moment I'm holding it out in front of me, a fraction of a second later there were tens of thousands of little glass pebbles everywhere and I was standing there holding nothing. It was surreal.
I'm so glad it's not just me! It was so weird I wouldn't blame someone for not believing me