What Are The Differences Between Tempered Glass Mirror And Regular Mirror?
Discover the essential differences between tempered glass mirrors and conventional mirrors in our latest article. Learn about the superior durability, enhanced safety features, and ideal applications of tempered glass mirrors, renowned for their strength and resistance to breakage. Find out why they are the preferred choice for both home and commercial settings. Read more!
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Before we figure out the differences between tempered glass mirrors and regular mirrors, we should know first what tempered glass mirror is and what regular mirror is, what are their own advantages and disadvantages, and then we can find out the key differences between that two kinds of mirrors.
About Tempered Glass Mirror
What is Tempered Glass Mirror?
Tempered glass mirror is a specially treated mirror with high safety and durability. It is made by tempering ordinary glass to make it have higher strength and heat resistance. When the tempered glass mirror is broken, it will break into small fragments without sharp angles, thus avoiding harm to the human body.
Manufacturing Processes of Tempered Glass Mirror:
Cutting: Cut the float glass into the appropriate shape according to the required size.
Edging processing: Grinding the cut glass to make its edges smooth.
Tempering treatment: Put the treated glass into a tempering furnace and heat it to near the softening point, and then cool it quickly to form a compressive stress layer and improve the tensile resistance of the glass.
Advantages of Tempered Glass Mirror:
Accurate imaging: Since the tempering process does not change the transparency of the glass, the image of tempered glass mirror is clear and does not deform.
High safety: When tempered glass mirror is broken, small fragments without sharp angles are formed to avoid injury.
Strong heat resistance: Thermal shock resistance of tempered glass mirror can reach 280℃-320℃, suitable for use in high temperature environments.
Disadvantages of Tempered Glass Mirrors:
Tempered Glass Mirror cannot be reprocessed: Tempered glass mirror adopts special technical techniques during the processing, resulting in its surface flatness slightly worse than ordinary glass mirror, and the processed tempered glass mirror can no longer be cut and processed, and the tempered glass mirror must be processed before tempering. Required Shape Processing
There is a risk of self-explosion for tempered glass mirror: In an environment with large temperature changes, tempered glass mirror may self-explode. Although tempered glass mirror is stronger than ordinary glass mirror, it may break automatically under extreme temperature changes, posing certain safety risks.
Tempered Glass Mirror May have an uneven surface: Due to the tempering process, the surface of tempered glass may be slightly uneven, which may affect the use effect and aesthetics of the mirror.
Higher cost: The production process of tempered glass mirror is complex and the cost is high, so the price of tempered glass mirrors is also relatively high.
Applications of Tempered Glass Mirrors:
Tempered glass mirrors are widely used in various occasions requiring high safety and heat resistance, such as:
Public places: Tempered glass mirror can be applied in public places such as hospitals, schools, offices, etc., providing safe and reliable reflective surfaces.
Home Decoration: Tempered glass mirror can also be used in humid environments such as bathrooms and kitchens, it is both beautiful and practical.
About Regular Mirror:
What is Regular Mirror?
An regular mirror is an object with a smooth surface that can reflect light. It is usually made of glass and coated with a metal film (such as silver, aluminum or copper) on its surface to form a reflective surface. The production process of regular mirrors is relatively simple, mainly plating a layer of metal on the back of the glass, and then undergoing simple processing
Features of Regular Mirror:
Production process: the production process of regular mirror is relatively simple, usually a layer of metal (such as aluminum or silver substitutes, such as mercury nitrate or mercury sulfate) is coated on the back of the glass, and then simply processed.
Material: The metal materials used (such as aluminum or mercury compounds) for ordinary mirror are usually not as stable and corrosion-resistant as silver mirrors
Clarity and refractive index: The reflectivity of ordinary mirrors is about 70%. The geometric angle of the object's light source reflection is not standard enough, resulting in easy deformation of shape and color, short service life, and poor corrosion resistance
Ordinary mirrors are widely used in daily life and industry, such as for finishing appearance, decoration, optical instruments, etc. Its price is relatively low and suitable for mass consumption.
Tempered Glass Mirror VS Regular Mirror:
The main differences between tempered glass mirrors and regular mirrors are strength, safety and heat resistance.
intensity difference
Tempered glass mirrors are several times stronger than ordinary mirrors. The bending strength of tempered glass is 3 to 5 times that of ordinary glass, and the impact strength is 5 to 10 times that of ordinary glass. This means that tempered glass mirrors are not only stronger, but also more resistant to drops.
Security differences
Once an ordinary mirror is broken, the edges are extremely sharp and can easily scratch people; when a tempered glass mirror is broken, it will present small granular fragments without forming sharp corners, greatly reducing the risk of cuts. In addition, tempered glass mirrors have a stronger load-bearing capacity and will not produce sharp fragments even if they break, thus reducing the possibility of harm to the human body.
Heat resistance difference
The heat resistance of tempered glass mirrors is also better than ordinary mirrors. Ordinary glass mirror is prone to bursting during the alternation of hot and cold, while tempered glass mirror can withstand higher temperature changes. For example, it can withstand temperature changes of more than 150 degrees Celsius, effectively preventing thermal bursting. This is very useful in some environments that require frequent alternations of hot and cold, such as kitchen stoves, oven doors, etc.
About Huide Glass:
Huide Glass has been in that processing business of tempered glass sheets products for around 13 Years since 2011. We have strong production and development capabilities, and currently has 7 automatic cutting machines, 8 edge grinding lines, there are 8 CNC precision grinding processing centers; there are 3 tempering furnaces(one for North-Glass, one for Yihai, and one for continuous tempering furnace SOUTHTECH). we can fabricate tempered glass sheet products 3,000,000 square meter per year.
Our tempered glass products includes tempered glass shelf for refrigerator, tempered glass door for refrigerators, tempered glass lid for household washing machines, tempered glass sheet for smart tea table top or bedside table top, tempered glass cover panel for water cleaner and water heater, tempered glass cover for advertising billboard, tempered glass top and front door panel for tea bar machine, tempered glass door sheet for ovens, tempered glass sheet for gas stoves, tempered glass cover panel for display cabinet, display box, or tempered glass cover sheet for showcase counter,etc, and also we can do customized manufacturing according to your unique real applications. if you want to know more, don't hesitate to contact us.
