Eli5 why can’t you make a “Prince Ruperts drop” without a tail to have no vulnerabilities.

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Eli5 why can’t you make a “Prince Ruperts drop” without a tail to have no vulnerabilities.

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Answer 1

You make it by dropping the glass/liquid, when you drop it the gravity makes it into a tear shape, thus the last bit to get heated up will be narrower and it will be stretched thin.