Artist Shayna Leib on her Wind and Water series:
"Two of the most powerful elements on our planet are nearly indiscernible to the human eye, yet we are innately aware of their presence, their capacity to soothe and destroy, and their ability to weave patterns where they touch."
So, apparently when molten hot glass is dropped into a bucket of cold water, it acquires so strange physical properties. Its compression strength (i.e. getting pounded by a hammer) gets many times stronger than normal glass, but its sheer and tensile strength (i.e. breaking of its surface tension through cutting or stretching) gets many many times weaker. In fact the slightest nick can cause it to explode.
Smarter Every Day has the super hi-speed/high-res footage to prove it.
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Reminds me a lot of the animals made of shattered CDs (to the right), that we covered last year, only much sharper.
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