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Overcoming the Shatter Factor
Some materials crystallize as they cool, arranging their atoms into a highly regular pattern called a lattice, but glass atoms become jammed in a nearly random arrangement, preventing it from forming a regular lattice. The jammed random arrangement of atoms in glass is what makes it very strong, but brittle.

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