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so we took a trip outside the studio for kind of an old-school elementary science experiment here I have a tempered glass panel from a fan Tech's p400s and we're going to see how high we have to drop this thing in order for the tempered glass to shatter in a nutshell a glass panel is tempered by undergoing a heating process followed by a rapid cooling of the outside of the glass which forces it into a sort of compression the inside of the glass cools much more slowly which tends to pull away from the outside edges and that puts the inside of the glass into tension the result is a very sturdy glass actually about four times stronger than regular glass the issue though is that when it does shatter you better have a broom handy for those who are wondering our test will be conducted on just pavement here like typical street pavement and it's pretty rocky so this will kind of simulate a worst-case scenario here for a dropping tempered glass I imagine most people would either drop this glass on carpet or hardwood or tile but this is a bit rougher so it's gonna break anywhere it's going to break here we've just got a bedsheet that we've turned kind of into a makeshift painters blanket so that's gonna capture most of the glass hopefully when this shattered and the thing about tempered glass I was saying earlier is that when this stuff does break it really breaks it shatters into a thousand pieces if not more as we want to make sure that we can gather as much of it but then the blanket as we can when it does break will sweep the rest from the road for the first part of this test we're only gonna drop the glass from about a foot high again I don't know when this is gonna break if it even will from upwards of three four feet but this is gonna be our first test so foot high just this distance here here we go that's pretty strong I'm surprised that didn't break it all right now I'm gonna drop it from the same height but this time parallel with the ground see if this makes any difference now for test number three we're gonna drop this vertically from two feet high is about two feet looks about right here we go this is pretty sturdy stuff all right and now two feet high horizontally I don't even see scratches on this thing all right so we keep having to push this camera further and further back so this is three feet from a vertical drop roughly three feet so you can see here this is about the only damage this tempered glass panel took from a 3-foot vertical drop I mean I'm surprised really by the way you should definitely wear some safety goggles if you do something like this for whatever reason do as I say not as I do so this is gonna be a 3-foot horizontal drop now there aren't even any scratches on it you could literally stick this back on the PC case sell it on Craigslist and nobody would know that we drop this thing multiple times on concrete from several feet high all right so here's where we are at this point so after two three foot drops one from a vertical position and one from a horizontal position relative to the floor the glass has literally taken on almost no damage you can see that the only damage is right here on this corner and that's where it hit the concrete first I believe so for anybody concerned about tempered glass rigidity and toughness and durability as I've heard a lot of people say oh yeah buy tempered glass it's just gonna break on me if I drop it first off I hope you don't plan on dropping your PC or any component from three feet high but even if this thing fell from three feet high in a worst-case scenario on some concrete like this your glass is likely not to break stay tuned though but we're gonna keep dropping this from higher in higher elevations until we do get it to shatter all right so it's getting kind of freaky now for a fourth set of tests I'm gonna drop this from shoulder height I'm about five nine five tens this is probably around five feet high and I don't know why you would have your PC this high off the ground maybe it's on the top of a bookshelf or something weird like that but I'd say this is beyond a worst case scenario if this doesn't shatter at this height we're just gonna throw it in the air see what happens here we go a vertical five foot drop what is it gonna take I don't know what to do I don't know what to do it still looks great five foot horizontal drop come on I don't even know what I'm gonna do now it's just like what seven seven feet or so let's do a seven foot vertical drop it's gonna be pretty explosive I'm gonna turn around and there we go you see how it's shattered into well over a thousand pieces uh that's what tempered glass does by nature of how it's made so yeah about seven feet onto a pretty rough concrete is what its gonna take at least for this particular panel to get it to shatter into a thousand pieces and there we go this is uh one of the remaining pieces that is now breaking into any other pieces of our fantex p400s tempered glass panel all right good to be back it's hot outside so a few general conclusions we can make about this little experiment here the first is that tempered glass is relatively sturdy it's gonna withstand some pretty serious drops as we've just proven even on some of the worst terrain possible this is thanks to the way the glass is in fact tempered that would downside to this is that if it does happen to shatter it will do so into a thousand pieces one other generalization I would like to make to those who often classify tempered glass cases into that fragile category oh I don't want to drop my glass and have it shatter look it's pretty tough in fact I would be more concerned about the floor in which you drop the panel then the panel itself that's what this video sought to prove if you'd like to see more videos like this on the channel let me know by giving this one a thumbs up I do appreciate that also don't be shy about clicking that red subscribe button down below pretty sure you're not gonna 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