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What material is the automobile glass made of?

What material is the automobile glass made of?

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The area of toughened glass is a new type of toughened glass, it through special treatment, can impact rupture, crack the glass can still maintain a certain clarity, ensure the driver's field of vision is not affected. At present, the front windshield of the car is mainly made of laminated tempered glass and sandwich area toughened glass, and it can bear strong impact force.
Among them, laminated glass refers to a transparent adhesive plastic film affixed to the two or three layers of glass, the plastic strength and toughness of glass and hard to combine together, increasing the glass's crushing resistance. Toughened glass refers to ordinary glass quenching. Internal stress was formed to some extent, so that the strength of the glass has been strengthened, the impact is broken, the glass will split into small pieces with a blunt edge, not easy to damage the occupant.
General automotive glass by silicon glass, the main components of silica content more than 70%, the rest by sodium oxide, calcium oxide, magnesium and other components, made by the float process.. The glass is then further processed into tempered glass (TSG) or laminated glass (LSG).

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