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Borosilicate glass, an Uncommon card
Borosilicate glass is a type of glass with silica and boron trioxide as the main glass-forming constituents.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 60
- Power
- 131
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 140,000
Ranked #2,255 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Borosilicate glass quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Borosilicate glass card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Borosilicate is generally slightly more ______ than soda–lime glass.
Answer
expensive. Borosilicate is generally slightly more expensive than soda–lime glass. From the Borosilicate glass article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Linear algebra. Linear algebra 80 · Roulette 76 · Borosilicate glass 71 · Mycelium 68 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Roulette. Roulette 550,000 · Mycelium 260,000 · Borosilicate glass 140,000 · 64-bit computing 98,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The glass has numerous advantages over regular soda–lime glass, including being harder to break when dropped, more resistant to cracking from significant changes in temperature, and having a higher clarity, which is maintained over a longer period of time.
- Borosilicate is generally slightly more expensive than soda–lime glass.
- Borosilicate glasses are known for having very low coefficients of thermal expansion, making them more resistant to thermal shock than any other common glass.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Borosilicate glass article was read about 140,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 60: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Borosilicate glass
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Borosilicate glass (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Pyrex, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
