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there's an old saying about throwing stones if you live in Glass Houses an ad

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Dodge that only really works because Normal glass is highly shatter but these

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days we use glass for a heck of a lot more than Windows we interact with our

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phones tablets and even some laptops through touching a glass screen and

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considering these are all portable devices that we drop hit and generally

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mistreat you'd think it would be far easier to shatter them now don't get me

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wrong the internet is full of stories of people who've cracked their iPhones but

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many people go years and years without anything happening to their glass

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displays this is at least partially thanks to toughened glass which is

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nearly ubiquitous on Modern mobile devices but how exactly does something

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as thin and lightweight as modern smartphones stand up to your cats claws

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or drops onto hard concrete floors many kinds of toughened glass such as Corning

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ever popular Gorilla Glass work because they have been chemically toughened

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intuitively it might seem like chemical toughening is no substitute for just

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making the glass thicker but certain chemicals can have a massive impact on

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materials think of how strong and light carbon fibers are but toughened glass

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like Gorilla Glass that might be in your smartphone is made by a process called

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ion exchange you see the glass that

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Corning uses as a base for Gilla glass has sodium ions embedded in it which can

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be easily displaced by larger potassium

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ions sheets of this sodium containing glass are dipped into a bath of liquid

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pottassium salt that's heated up to 400°

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C or over 750 fah for our American

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viewers the heat allows the potassium in the bath to displace the smaller sodium

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ions because the potassium ions are larger they actually compress the glass

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on a molecular level giving it much greater strength and

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resistance to scratches and other kinds of damage now if you'd like to learn

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more about Gorilla Glass specifically including what it can actually do in the

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real world and some of its other various limitations you can learn more about it

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in this video but even though Corning currently has a huge share of the

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touchscreen glass Market with gorilla glass that doesn't mean it's the only

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technology out there specifically sapphire glass has been tossed around

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quite a bit as a possible replacement for silicon based glasses the aluminum

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oxide molecules that make up Sapphire gems bond together in a trigonal crystal

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structure that makes it extremely strong and hard to the point where it's almost

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impossible to scratch and because the typical blue color of sapphires is due

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to impurities that can be removed synthetic Sapphire can easily be made to

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be colorless it's also even more transparent than current types of common

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smartphone glass glass so why isn't everyone using it yet well a huge part

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of the reason is simply cost according to estimates from Corning sapphire glass

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is about 10 times more expensive to make than Gorilla Glass in fact Apple

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invested around a billion dollar in a sapphire Factory in Arizona that ended

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up failing partially due to manufacturing difficulties I guess

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producing a quar ton cylinder of sapphire in a furnace reaching thousands

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of degrees is no small task Sapphire

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isn't perfect either because while its hardness means it's tougher to scratch

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it also means that it's brittle so it might not provide much better shatter

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resistance than current Technologies but in a world that's increasingly reliant

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on mobile devices that we want to be thin light and portable Sapphire screens

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may become the more popular choice in the near future just don't present a

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sapphire iPhone on a ring when you're proposing to your future spouse that

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