bologna bottle On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
MStay>
I wrote Destin at "Smarter Every Day" about the problem and he responded that he was already working on an episode about it; he has completed filming and will publish it in December. He has previously used a camera fast enough to catch the shattering of a prince rupert's drop, so he's up to the challenge. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe-f4gokRBs) ------
These were demonstrated in MIT freshman Chem, along with their larger and more impressive brethren, which I misrecall as Prince Andrew's drops (dele). Thick-walled and hollow. You whacked them with hammer-- nothing. You wrapped them in a towel and dropped in a grain of carborundum--bam! What's their damn name?
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