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Speaker 1: brand with today's question, how does bulletproof glass work? At
Speaker 1: first glance, bullet resistant glass looks identical to an ordinary
Speaker 1: pane of glass, but that's where the similarities end. An
Speaker 1: ordinary piece of glass shatters one struck by a single bullet.
Speaker 1: Bullet resistant glass is designed to withstand one or several
Speaker 1: rounds of bullets, depending on the thickness of the glass
Speaker 1: and the weapon being fired at it. So what gives
Speaker 1: bullet resistant glass the ability to stop bullets? Different manufacturers
Speaker 1: make different variations of bullet resistant glass, but it's basically
Speaker 1: made by layering a polycarbonate material between pieces of ordinary
Speaker 1: glass in a process called lamination. This process creates a
Speaker 1: glass like material that's thicker than normal glass. Polycarbonate is
Speaker 1: a tough, transparent plastic often known by the brand names Lexan,
Speaker 1: tough Act or Syrolin. Bullet resistant glass is between seven
Speaker 1: millimeters and seventy five millimeters in thickness. A bullet fired
Speaker 1: at a sheet of bullet resistant glass will pierce the
Speaker 1: outside layer of the glass, but the layered polycarbonate glass
Speaker 1: material is able to absorb the bullets energy and stop
Speaker 1: it before it exits the final layer. The ability of
Speaker 1: bullet resistant glass to stop a bullet is determined by
Speaker 1: the thickness of the glass. A rifle bullet will collide
Speaker 1: with the glass with a lot more force than a
Speaker 1: bullet from a handgun, so a thick or piece of
Speaker 1: bullet resistant glass would be needed to stop a rifle
Speaker 1: bullet as opposed to a handgun bullet. There's also one
Speaker 1: way bullet resistant glass available, which has one side able
Speaker 1: to stop bullets while the other side allows bullets to
Speaker 1: pass through it unaffected. This gives a person being shot
Speaker 1: at the ability to shoot back. This type of bullet
Speaker 1: resistant glass is made by laminating a brittle sheet of
Speaker 1: material with a flexible material. Imagine a car equipped with
Speaker 1: this one way bullet resistant glass. If a person outside
Speaker 1: the car shoots a bullet into the window, the bullet
Speaker 1: would strike the brittle side first. This brittle material would
Speaker 1: shatter around the point of impact and absorb some of
Speaker 1: the energy over a large area. The flexible material then
Speaker 1: absorbs the remaining energy of the bullets, stopping that bullet.
Speaker 1: A bullet fired from the inside of the same car
Speaker 1: would easily pass through the glass because the bullets forces
Speaker 1: concentrated on a small area, which causes the material to
Speaker 1: fly x. This causes the brittle material to break outward,
Speaker 1: allowing the bullet to pierce the flexible material and strike
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