altered after fabrication.

When fractured, it breaks into relatively

harmless pebble-sized particles.

• Laminated or safety glass consists of two or more plies of flat

glass bonded under heat and pressure to interlayers of polyvinyl

butyral resin that retains the fragments if the glass is broken.

Security glass is laminated glass that has exceptional tensile and

impact strength.

• Wired glass is flat or patterned glass having a square or diamond

wire mesh embedded within it to prevent shattering in the event of

breakage or excessive heat. Wired glass is considered a safety

glazing material and may be used to glaze fire doors and windows.

• Patterned glass has a linear or geometric surface pattern formed

in the rolling process to obscure vision or to diffuse light.

• Obscure glass has one or both sides acid-etched or sandblasted to

obscure vision. Either process weakens the glass and makes it

difficult to clean.

• Spandrel glass is an opaque glass for concealing the structural

elements in curtain wall construction, produced by fusing a ceramic

frit to the interior surface of tempered or heat-strengthened

glass.

• Insulating glass is a glass unit consisting of two or more sheets

of glass separated by a hermetically sealed air space to provide

thermal insulation and restrict condensation; glass edge units

have a 3/16” (5) air space; metal edge units have a ¼” or ½” (6 or

13) air space.

• Tinted or heat-absorbing glass has a chemical

admixture to absorb a portion of the radiant heat and

visible light that strike it. Iron oxide gives the glass a

pale blue-green tint; cobalt oxide and nickel impart a

grayish tint; selenium infuses a bronze tint.

• Reflective glass has a thin, translucent metallic