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About 90% of the glass that’s manufactured is soda-lime glass. Boron and other materials are often added to glass to make it useful in different situations. Boron, for example, makes glass harder (and therefore harder to scratch).

Dealing with scratched glass as a DIY effort rarely makes things better. In fact, you’re more likely to distort the glass or use the wrong treatment. This will undoubtedly make it worse.

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To scratch glass, you’ll need something harder than copper, made of steel or titanium, and a little bit of a sharp edge. If there’s a smooth but hard surface against the flat surface of glass, then it’s unlikely to scratch it.

Glasshardness

It might surprise you to know that any material that is a “transparent amorphous solid” can be called a glass. What that means in familiar terms is that glass is not a liquid, as some have claimed. It also doesn’t have a fixed crystal structure like quartz, rubies, or even metals do.

If you need an example of the difference between a single crystal, take a look at solar panels. These are made from a single slice of a metallic silicon crystal. Polycrystalline solar panels, panels that look like blue camo, are groups of silicon crystals fused together as one.

Glass is basically silica sand that has been melted and allowed to cool. An amorphous solid doesn’t have a near-perfect pattern, or even groups of patterns like a polycrystal has.

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Typical glass uses quartz, so anything the same or greater hardness will potentially scratch it. That said, quartz is a strong, hard material with a hardness rating of 7 but glass only comes in at 5.5 because of the arrangement of its atoms.

On the Mohs scale, which measures the hardness of minerals, quartz ranks at 7, while typical glass ranks around 5.5. This significant difference means that quartz is hard enough to easily scratch glass. Materials with a hardness greater than or equal to 6 can scratch glass surfaces, making quartz one of the common substances capable of causing damage to glass.

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For protection against scratches, harder materials or coatings are recommended for glass, but once scratched, professional repair or replacement is often necessary.

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Instead, let the professionals handle it. We can replace the glass and keep your business or home attractive. New glass technologies may not be able to completely stop the “tagging” of glass but they can certainly help.

Anything sharp and of sufficient hardness will scratch glass. This makes it difficult to protect against because almost anything in a vandal’s home can get used for tagging or scratching.

Let Atlantic Glass give you the advice you need for dealing with this growing problem. We’ve been operating since 1995 and we’ve seen a thing or two. We’re committed to expert glass service, but also excellent customer service.