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You might have to polish your glass if the table top or even the windshield develops scratches. They are known to toy with the look of a glass and in this regard you need glass polishing additives. They are rated to be chemicals that dig deep on to the glass surface and eradicates scratches. But they are not going to act chemically as they have a mechanical action even.

Glass polishing is part of your daily routine like cleaning the table tops or windshield of your car. The polishing additives are not only used domestically but from an industrial viewpoint. Not only they polish but possess the ability in order to weed out the scratches that is needed at an industrial level.
 

Mostly the additives are used in the form of powder. But a glass polishing powder is not a single chemical as it is a consortium of various chemicals. Now what are these polishing additives incorporated from? Mainly they are formed from cerium oxide, calcium oxide, aluminum oxide etc. The compounds are precise and possess superior cutting properties.
 

These additives have a dual effect- both mechanical and chemical. The mechanical action of the powder paves way for a chemical action. The granular fine particles rub against the scratch. It is assumed that the heat generated during this process leads to a chemical action. A combination of chemical along with mechanical action would put forth the process of scratch removal.

The process of scratches appearing on the glass surface

Glass surfaces are bound to appear on a glass surface over a long period of time even if there is no causative agent. The reason why the scratches tend to emerge is not all of a sudden, they work out to be slow, being progressive and gradual. The dust particles that settle on the glasses over a long period of time can lead to formation of scratches.

But scratches could develop all of a sudden and in such cases it can be a deep scratch rather than emerging over a long period of time. Be it both the cases you have to remove the scratches with the aid of glass polishing additives. At the same time in order to remove a sudden scratch it takes a longer period of time. To prevent scratches has to be your priority.