glass
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5 Ways to Fix a Cracked Window, Ranked From the Worst to the Best Idea
Discovering a cracked pane of glass in one of your home’s windows might get you contemplating an expensive replacement. But you can often repair a cracked window yourself, and prevent the crack from getting worse and eventually breaking. If nothing else, this can buy you time to budget for a future replacement instead of getting…
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The Right Way to Break a Car Window In an Emergency
If you’re anything like me, your overriding goal in life is to not have a hilarious obituary. This is why I’ve decided to never ride a rollercoaster, board a hot air balloon, or go skydiving — I don’t want my last thoughts to be along the lines of why I thought jumping out of a…
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Why Chemists Rinse Their Glassware Three Times (and Why You Should, Too)
In a former life, I was a lab technician in a chemistry lab, where I used a very small portion of the knowledge I had gained studying chemistry for four years. I left that industry over a decade ago, but little habits have stuck with me, particularly when it comes to glassware.
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The Best Ways to Clean Up Every Shard of Broken Glass
Cleaning up broken glass requires you to be thorough. And to be thorough enough, sometimes you need to get resourceful. Even if you have a broom on hand, you might want to try a different method — either the broom will fail to pick them up in the first place, or tiny shards get stuck…