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Re:How Plastics Are Poisoning Us by jlokier on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @08:49AM (#36505644)
It depends on the type of glass. Some glasses are incredibly resilient, and some of them are flexible. They all look the same, so people who don't know tend to think of all glass as the same substance.
Re:How Plastics Are Poisoning Us by joveian on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @10:17AM (#36506847)
Some glass is also plastic. But I think outside technical discussions and deceptive marketing glass is usually used to refer to borosilicate or soda-lime since those are what most widespread glass products were for a while. Recently there are more varieties of glass that are marketed as glass to take advantage of the good reputation (in some ways) of borosilicate and soda-lime. But this is like using the term fruit in a technical way, it is just not what most people mean by the term glass.