Prince Rupert's Droplet with Color & Boro

What happens when molten glass meets cold water? Explosive stress! In this video I create Prince Rupert's droplets from soda lime, colored soda lime, and borosilicate (lab glass). I subject them to a drop test of 50lb's to test their durability and snap them with my fingers to feel a shower of silica debris.

[@xandert8329]

Hope to see more videos from you Matt, you inspired me when I was first starting out in torchwork. Now I own a business making glass art! Peace ✌️

[@zacpackman9186]

nice tng refrence "THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS" heheh love it. awsome work as allwase mate

[@Meme_Merchant]

Glad to see you are still on it!! Keep making great videos bro!

[@JakeDogg-RIP]

Great video Matt! I really enjoy ur videos! I love science/chemistry yt videos but I’m also looking at starting glass/flame work to make marbles, paperweights and small sculptures, maybe beads and pipes too, but the pipes I still need to look into the legality here in australia, I think they are legal as long as they don’t contain any cannabis/drug residues in them, but it might not be worth making them if the police feel they need to search my house because I’m making them 🤷‍♂️😂 but yeah love ur vids and how u try to incorporate some science and experimentation into the stuff ur making 🍻👊🥰

[@jamesennis1594]

i have always wondered if boro would work as a drop, used to make soda lime ones and pop them in a ziplock bag to show how crazy stress in glass is. thanks for this video!

[@mumiemonstret]

Very interesting and educational! I like that you apply the scientific method to learn something new. Did you try the impact strength on the bulb of the borosilicate droplets? I assume they are considerably weaker than the soda-lime droplets.

[@zacpackman9186]

hi mat an idea for you would hte price ruperts drops maintain therre reslience if you anneal them in the kiln. or do u think they will explode in the kiln ?

[@MattJasa]

I believe the resilience comes from the internal stress, so I would assume annealing would remove that stress making them ordinary glass droplets. It sounds like a good experiment, I'll have to try it!

[@Sauce787]

The bird sounds are kinda annoying tbh. You should make some Shorts about the Rupert's drop I've seen videos like that do really well

[@fredspofford]

Lol. Are you constantly annoyed or do you just avoid going outside?