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|    dlzc to Volney    |
|    Re: Broken tempered glass turns brown?    |
|    27 Oct 18 11:18:19    |
      From: dlzc1@cox.net              Dear Volney:              On Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 12:01:20 AM UTC-7, Volney wrote:       > He no longer has the broken glass and has no       > pictures. He said there wasn't any sign of a       > plastic layer and the glass was similar in       > color to brown beer bottle glass.              So either:       - the table glass was already beer bottle brown, and not clear;       - the glass was covered with mud (or mildew), and he did not notice;       - the glass had been bombarded with radiation, which displaces charges of       their normal sites, and turns normal glass beer bottle brown (seen this with       gamma radiation, works with e-beam sterilizers too);       - the original glass blew away elsewhere, and a different glass table top       ended up in his yard, broken.              David A. Smith              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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