Spontaneous breakage of glass in facades is under control today, due to application of a very effective prevention method, namely the Heat Soak Test (HST) following EN 14179-1 (2006/2016). Nevertheless, details of the latter are still subject to discussion, mainly due to the fact that some years ago, it was discovered in an R&D project that it's holding temperature is too high, and it was reduced to 260 ± 10 • C at the recent review. In the present paper we investigate the properties of nickel sulphide inclusions in order to show that there's a huge difference in their comportment, and therewith their "criticality", in the HST or on the façade. Namely, not only the expansivity difference between nickel sulphide and the glass plays a role. Nickel sulphide inclusions show a spectrum of possible compositions, and we approach this fact systematically, showing how the breakage probability under both conditions changes depending on the detailed composition of the inclusions. The result of this comparison is that, out of all nickel sulphide inclusions leading to breakage in HST, only 40% also lead to breakage at ambient. Another aspect is the time-to-breakage curve in the HST. By the example of a dataset where nearly only SiO 2 stones cause breakages therein, we show that