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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert%27s_drop
May 28, 2024 9:28 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert%27s_drop
xizar
As someone who made one of these in high school physics class, I am super excited for you to know about these now. They're so bizarre.
MotoCanuck
Now do it on a bigger scale!
brandonblk
i wanna see what a hydrolic press will do to this
IrishBarBalm
fartharder
Next week: a Prince Albert
LordScuttlebutt
Destin (Smarter every day) did a really good video about these drops. https://youtu.be/X3o71W4uNHc?si=nPcFa8s3J4fzhMIK
threeverse
And we learned how to do this process continuesly for sheets of tempered glass, which is crazy from the perspective of the physics involved
Verbodentoegang
Can witstand bullit impact, if it is a prince Rupert
mrputter
...but not, normally, if you hit the tail.
Rufferstuff
TIL the head can take a lot of pounding.
OhIfIMust
Whereas the tail is fragile as all getout.
Sageypie
always wondered what would happen if you were able to somehow make one of these just round. It'd require some kind of zero gravity situation, I'd imagine, or just something equally as quasi-magical. But if you were able to create a drop that was spherical instead of having a trailing tail, would it cause the entire thing to lock in the stresses and be nearly indestructible, or would it cause the entirety of it to be waiting for the slightest amount of damage before shattering?
cousteau
Maybe burn both ends of a glass filament until both drops meet in the middle? Or make one of these tailless drops and then apply heat again till it becomes round
InsertUnimaginativeUsernameHere
I'm looking for the Bishop's dilemma...
OhIfIMust
How about the Bishop of Battle?
glocksout
Very difficult to get out of your pee hole
cousteau
I just produced a kidney stone earlier this month, and it was shaped just like this, but with spikes.
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
I, too, can withstand multiple blows
newsguycraigevans
mikeatike
To the head.
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
KainLamond
To the hips?
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
KainLamond
I'm going to have to test this...
OhIfIMust
Not to be confused with
ihavethelowground
RUPRECHT
PapaSez
"OOOKLAAAHOMA, OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA..."
blinkonceforyes
Excuse me, may I go to the bathroom first?
Vtoh
Sure
ComehereAreyouticklish
*long pause..
"thank you"
Swampplatapus
Lol
TruckStopRats
Wait 'till you hear about Prince Albert's top...
jammer909
Or Prince Andrew's bottom.
CaptainThePirate
Oh Steve?
doppelfisch
Once knew a guy with a Prince Albert, a Jacob's Ladder, all on a near 10" schlong. Good dude, shame he passed away years ago.
AnonKneeMoose
Still a better outcome than Prince Andrew’s Topping of choice.
dogfoodlidnotabananabaton
BeaverOnFire
StewedTomaters
Tiger King.
jimmythehat1
Do you have Prince Albert in a can?
DongleDingler
Do you want one in your can?
TruckStopRats
HIYOOOOO
Duckgooser
We had a temp awhile back that kept trying to show me his Prince Albert. Boss had been out of town the week he worked there. He was extremely qualified, boss wanted to hire him permanently & HR had to explain the incidents & that they fired him as soon as possible & would not be getting him back. He was absolutely dumbfounded
Cyrakhis
we had a guy like that. We nicknamed him Dick Pic, nickname stuck til he got canned when due process worked through
Duckgooser
Yeah, it's a pretty long & sad story about him. I only found out after. He was really well known in my industry, used to be well known & highly respected. I'm not defending his behaviour, but he & his partner of 20 years got married just before he came to work with us. She died in a motorcycle accident on the first day of their honeymoon & he went pretty weird after that.
igglebotato
holy SHIT that's a dark turn
Duckgooser
It's darker than that even. But it'd take a fair bit to lay the whole thing out.
KainLamond
It didn't quench it fast enough, you can see it is still red hot and didn't lock in the stresses
ffviTritoch
Locking in the stresses is how I got myself all burned out at work.
dwarfinathonginacaskinthewaterwoooo
now test it with a hammer
HankeringForASpankering
Looks like it was quenched in oil, I thought you needed to use water?
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
Probably brine if you want it to cool quickly.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
AudioOn
It is oil. The point was to find out if there's a difference when quenching it in oil, and the result is that there's a difference.
DocWino
Oil makes steel hard, water makes it brittle. Makes sense.
Eroen0
That's... probably right in some very specific context, but in general it's nonsense.
AngryKoboldWithSomeGlasses
It might interest you to know that this is because water cools the steel down a lot faster than the oil does. This locks in a lot more carbon, forming the hard but brittle cementite
zimirken
Depends on the type of steel. Different alloys require different quenching. A2, O2, W2.
DocWino
Noted.