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.22 Lead bullet with no jacket
Shot at 10,000 frames per second. There are some that break but only from the tail vibrating not the hit from the bullet.
.22 Lead bullet
An example of one that shattered.
.22 Full Metal Jacket
Shot at 170,000 frames per second
.38 Full Metal Jacket
Shot at 170,000 frames per second #Awesome #Science_and_tech
I highly recommend you check out this guy's channel - Smarter Every Day: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6107grRI4m0o2-emgoDnAA
Sauces:
.22 lead bullets - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24q80ReMyq0
Jacketed bullets - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3FkAUbetWU&t=7s
BriariusSin
Water dropped onto hot glass
moredownvotesplease
Why don't we make armored cars' exteriors out of a bunch of these?
candysaur
Poor Prince Rupert. :(
xXDrSmilesXx
Aww hell yes I love this post
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DiceOfFate
+1 for the sauce, very good sauce.
Ghost7167
It's cool but where could you really use that in an actual situation. I doubt you could make that into a vest easily.
world345
Cool
ApparentlyBritish
Prince Rupert himself was one weird and cool motherfucker.
MisterOp
make tanks out of em
MEMRITV
Now try it with a 125mm APFDS shell !
GenerallyKenobi
Wmecas
@smartereveryday he is genius!!!
AreWeNotDoingPhrasingNow
Glass beats lead
Borkbot
Would this work with a sphere of glass cooled in the same fashion?
AHoopyFroodAndHisTowel
Theoretically, yes. Making such a sphere would be the tricky part.
Fredfinks
Hardcore piercers get their prince alberts done with a gun.
nanman
Some one knows...but really lets keep our secret a secret.
duncan5wan
g3r4r
These glass sperms look very resistant
TheMossWillInheritTheEarth
Jesus I had no idea that glass could be that strong!
ChosenMosin
I need to see a rifle round against this now.
TheStoneMask
He's working up to that. Next vid he'll use an AK-47
kamkor1
Why stop there .44 magnum or 30-06 or .50 caliber
CrBNFreeze
Just release a video with a .38 special I think
Lindbo96
Subscribe to him and you'll see that in a week or two.
StoicJ
Ran out of light. Doing the next set in the next vid
Horsed
TIL that Full Metal jacket isn't a ballistic vest
UsernameNotTakenYet
Technically, it is a ballistic vest. Just that it's for the bullet instead of it's target.
Horsed
I like your way of thinking
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Henez
If you watch any slow motion footage of these shattering you will see it always starts in the tail and spreads to the front. 1/2
Henez
If you manage to hit the tip without knocking the tail they will not shatter
Woffenhorst
Glass is not liquid.
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Woffenhorst
Science is sometimes necessary to simplify, but one must beware of oversimplifying and thereby creating confusion.
Woffenhorst
Well "liquid" doesn't even loosely resemble an amorphous crystalline solid.
RandomlyAppointedNSAAgent
Could... Could.you make armor out of this? Like, it you could find a way to produce it without the tail, maybe?
MayorMcWeed
Maybe! You might just need armor under the armor just in case they start shattering against your body at incredible speeds.
alternator43
If you could manage to drop a perfectly rouned bead of molten glass without any tailing behind it as it drops.
DoktorFist
No. These are lead rounds, lead is a very soft metal compared to copper-jacketed lead or true armor-piercing.
schmooz
The captions say "full metal jacket" on some of the gifs
DoktorFist
oooops
twotrue
No, as far as i understand (which isn't that much tbh) the tension that gives it its strength relies on the weak tail to be there
lefthandtaco
I've wondered if you could melt the tail off and leave the drop
RandomlyAppointedNSAAgent
I wonder if there's a way that you could make the tail more... Intentional. Like, make it smaller. More compact.
Imhereforthelurking
It's the crystalline difference in the quick cooled outside and the slow cooled inside, and the fragile tail, that give the anomaly strength
GodEmperorOfImgur
As soon as the tail is "compromised" it releases all the stress tension. Causing it to shatter.
PuddingIsAmazing
knowing how they are created, what if right as it's dropped in the water and starts cooling, we chop the tail or at least stunt it in there
GodEmperorOfImgur
Technically it's possible... we think. But we'll have to try and create one in weightlessness vacuum. Not really possible at the moment. 1/2