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So glassware is safer than plastics? I'm not going to get bits of glass in my brain just from drinking soda out of bottles?

• kstrauser 2y ago
  Yes, glassware is vastly more stable than plastics. Ever microwave something in a plastic bowl and it comes out smelling kinda plasticky? That smell means it’s degraded and venting volatile compounds that are chemically reacting with your olfactory neurons. Smelling something doesn’t automatically make something dangerous, obviously. It does mean the molecules that were previously part of your plastic soup bowl are now knocking around in the open air. Glass doesn’t do that at common temperatures. It’s basically inert.