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Old 07-17-2007, 06:19 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sprocket
How can you tell if its tempered or not?
The way it broke. Tempered glass doesn't snap off- - if it breaks, the whole thing shatters into rounded pieces.

You wouldn't want to temper that desk because impacts (say, thunking a monitor down onto it) could shatter it. And because an impact on the corner could shatter the entire desk and destroy whatever was on top of it.
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