MOLTEN GLASS VS Prince Rupert's Drop - Smarter Every Day 285
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Destin from Smarter Every Day visits Cal Breed at Orbix Hot Glass to explore the material science of glass and how to cast a Prince Rupert's drop inside molten glass and shatter it.
From the video
Answers: Can you cast a Prince Rupert's drop in molten glass and shatter it?
- Prince Rupert's drops
- glassblowing
- material science
- viscosity vs temperature of glass
- phase transition of water vs glass
- annealing glass
- high-speed photography of glass fracture
What it concludes
- Glass is a second-order transition material where viscosity changes gradually over a wide temperature band.
- Blowing air into molten glass using the ideal gas law allows glass artists to form shapes.
- Failure in glass can be used as a space for discovery and artistic design when carefully managed with annealing.
- The Prince Rupert's drop can be successfully embedded and cast inside a block of molten glass without premature shattering.
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