Prince Rupert's drops

Thats a pretty cool thing. These drops don't break at the one end also with enourmous forces applied to it, but at the other end they will break into millions of little pieces just as sugar if you just press them with your fingers.

Video
another one

and here some explaination for the interested of you

Fascinating, quite weird too. Obviously there are good reasons for it to explode when applying a small force on the end of the drop, but it did wow me quite a bit!

Cheers

Na, auch Ehrensenf gesehen, Scorpion ^^?

yaaa, direkt als ich nach Hause gekommen bin^^

Ist doch genial dieses komische Stück Glass

Fand ich auch sehr geil. Das will ich haben .