Is glass easier to break if it's frozen?

Question

Will the glass break easier?

Hmmm...

Answer 1

no but it breaks differently

Answer 2

how can you freeze glass? it's already a solid!

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Answer 3

It wouldn't exactly be "frozen", since it is already a solid (or, technically, a 'glass', which is a bit different from both liquids and solids).

However, the more you lower the temperature (like with a metal), the atoms move together and it becomes more brittle.

However, this is more like a laboratory result than something to observe as a huge difference between winter and summer.

Answer 4

This is a fun question!

Glass does not freeze like other things do, so the literal answer is extremely complex: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Ge...

Answer 5

Many things become more brittle when they become colder, but not all. Plastics and steel do, but pure copper does not. I don't think glass does to an appreciable degree. It's pretty much maxed out on the brittle scale already.