I saw a video describing how the ‘mystery of Rupert’s drops is revealed,’ and I did not understand any of it. They said something about the drop part and it’s distribution of stress: compression on the surface, tension in the interior. Ok? I have no idea what that means lmao, anyway if anyone could enlighten me on this I’d be quite thankful!
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Imagine the glass molecules as a bunch of people holding arms in a formation. In a normal bead of glass, they are just loosely connected to all the people around them. Rupert’s drops are a bead of glass where most are instead pushing against all of the people around them, while the outer edges are pulling on their neighbors. Because they are pushing against each other instead of just hanging on, they keep their formation with a ton more strength. The biggest drawback is that if one person in the formation trips, then everybody around them falls into that hole because they are still pushing towards them.
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