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3 Glass Cleaning Hacks For Streak-Free Windows
Glass naturally seems to be constantly covered in fingerprints, dust, smudges, and scratches. Here are the best ways to clean glass.
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That Viral ‘PYREX’ Brand Hack Is Horseshit, Folks
Everyone loves a good kitchen hack, and one of the most popular examples concerns glass cookware. Between Twitter, Reddit, and TikTok, there are hundreds of posts asserting that all-caps PYREX is the good stuff (aka, borosilicate glass), and all-lowercase pyrex is junk (aka, tempered soda-lime glass). If you stick to PYREX-branded products, the reasoning goes,…
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Why Chemists Rinse Their Glassware Three Times (and Why You Should, Too)
In a former life, I was a lab technician in a chemistry lab, where I used a very small portion of the knowledge I had gained studying chemistry for four years. I left that industry over a decade ago, but little habits have stuck with me, particularly when it comes to glassware.
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The Best Ways to Clean Up Every Shard of Broken Glass
Cleaning up broken glass requires you to be thorough. And to be thorough enough, sometimes you need to get resourceful. Even if you have a broom on hand, you might want to try a different method — either the broom will fail to pick them up in the first place, or tiny shards get stuck…