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willglynn on Dec 22, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: O Holy Crap

It's not that simple. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/exploding-pyrex/

> What's Undetermined

> Whether Pyrex switched from using borosilicate glass to tempered soda lime glass only after Corning sold the brand to World Kitchen in 1998.

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> In a January 2011 article on glass bakeware, Consumer Reports stated that they were unable to determine exactly when major U.S. manufacturers (including Pyrex) switched

crystaln on Dec 22, 2022 [–]

That’s the most amount of word salad garbage I’ve ever seen on snopes.

The government hasn’t determined that soda lime glass is unsafe? Shocking.

I wonder why chemists use borosilicate? Hmm.

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