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This is mainly due to the difference in temperature. Once glass (let's take a test tube for example) has been heated, the glass itself assumes this temperature also. If you pour or immerse this heated test tube in cold water, it causes the glass to contract; this contraction causes the glass to crack and of course shatter. Glass as you're aware isn't very flexible or elastic and instead is brittle so this happens fairly easily with standard laboratory equipment.

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