SINGAPORE - With Chinese New Year just around the corner, lovers of steamboats or hotpots planning to enjoy a warm meal on glass tables at home might want to take some precautions.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - With Chinese New Year just around the corner, lovers of steamboats or hotpots planning to enjoy a warm meal on glass tables at home might want to take some precautions.
She wrote that some of her guests had"cuts bigger than the size of an eye" as a result, and that she was taken to hospital for second degree burns. One possible reason for the tempered glass table shattering is that glass is a poor conductor of heat, said associate professor Dong Zhili from Nanyang Technological University's School of Materials Science and Engineering.
It said tempered glass is considered safe because it is designed to break into"granular chunks instead of sharp pieces which may cause cuts", and said the cuts suffered by Ms Chu's friends were likely caused by broken cutlery. There have been other instances of residents fazed by shattering tempered glass that are not linked to hot objects being in contact with the glass.
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