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What is more fragile? Ceramic or glass?

What is more fragile? Ceramic or glass.

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Another fact you need to know regarding the fragility of ceramic and glass is thickness. A thick piece of glass may be much stronger than a thin piece of ceramic.
ceramic is made out of clay if an art piece was made out of plastic or glass it would be called a sculpture i would buy something plastic to put on my phone, because i don't know about you but mine gets thrown around alot and clay breaks just at easily as glass
The are both vitreous materials fused by heat how that occurs and the composition of the material affects their strength. For instance you can get bulletproof glass and ceramic panels are used in bulletproof vests at the other end of the scale there is sugar glass used in the movies for stunts an easy break type of safe breaking glass and low temperature fired ceramics that melt back to clay when placed in water. But generally glass is more fragile than ceramics.

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