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What is mineral glass?
Wristwatches claim that "mineral glass" resists scratches and it must be distinguishable from ordinary glass which has been made with silica, a mineral. So what makes the difference that watchmakers capitalize upon?
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- RichardLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Mineral glass is ordinary tempered glass made from silica. It is more scratch resistant than Plexiglass which is a plastic also used for watch crystals.
The most scratch resistant crystals are usually mineral glass coated with synthetic Sapphire.
- Anonymous5 years ago
A mineral must have a structure, a crystal form. A glass, by definition, has no structure (it is a non-crystalline solid). It is basically a frozen liquid, a solid that has the physical arrangement of atoms of a liquid. However, a lot of what we call volcanic glass is really filled with microcrystals, crystals that can be seen under a microscope, and thus really is not a glass. And you can get intermediate forms, where some crystals (crystals that had formed before quenching or form through recrystallization after glassification) are dispersed in the non-crystalline or glass matrix.