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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This is basically how tempered glass is made, just not quite so maxed out.

You probably could use some sort of container to heat up a piece of glass in a ball shape and then rapidly quench that to get a tail-less Prince Rupert Drop, just this is a lot of work for something with very limited utility where the drawbacks (catastrophic failure without notice) outweigh advantages for anything you’d use it in.