The Secrets of Prince Rupert's Exploding Glass Drops

Friday, August 1, 2008 - 12:07 in Physics & Chemistry

I discovered that the bottom of my bag was littered with powdered glass. Three of the little Prince Rupert’s drops I had so carefully made for a lecture at Oxford University had exploded.

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