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Stones, Glass Houses and Window Pains

Since houses are equipped with glass windows of myriad shapes and sizes, there is no need to tiptoe around the environment in fear of cracking a few panes. In the event of a badly aimed projectile courtesy of a neighbor’s child, the weather contributes its fair share of mishap as windy situations may cause a branch to become ballistic with the correct amount of force and speed. Replacement glass for windows is nothing new to the house owner having being subjected to one form or the other in the various categories of domestic accidents.

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The Modern Green House or Glass House

Basically a green house is a building or a place where plants are grown and is made up of different types of materials such as glass or plastic roofs. These are also called a Glass House…

The structure of these houses is built in such a way that the incoming solar radiation from the sun is absorbed by the plants and the soil. The glass inside these green houses is partly opaque. This is because the thermal energy re-radiated by the green houses is trapped inside. The primary heating mechanism of the green house is convection.

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