Why does some glass not hurt when it shatters? 🥽💥
In this episode of Science Experiments & Demonstrations, @Chemteacherphil demonstrates how sugar can be turned into real life “breakaway glass.” Don’t try this at home, although it is not real glass, it can still be dangerous! When you heat sugar and water to 300 °F it reaches the hard crack stage. When the liquid cools the molecules get locked into a disordered structure, forming an amorphous solid, just like real glass, minus the razor sharp shards. It’s the same trick behind those Hollywood stunt bottles, made from sugar instead of a brittle plastic resin.
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me, watching this after I tried to do with the wine glass in my closet, my hands bleeding all over
“Am I eating because I’m bored??” 😂
Good old movie trick.
Ouuuu I get to be a movie star now!!! Thank you science!
Ouch 😂
I cooked my dragon beard candy dough a little too high and it turned it into a weapon.
So, originally, the breakable props in movies were actually made out of sugar glass. They frequently still call them sugar glass.
It’s only been more recently that they changed the formula to make it easier to handle and less messy, because getting lots of shards of sugar glass all over the place can be hard to clean up.
Yeah science
Sugar glass is SAFER not safe…
Pointless
Sugar Pop
oh wow i’ve never actually seen anybody make it! this is so cool
Jessie… Time to cook
tight, tight, TIGHT!
For years I had a piece of sugar glass from the set of everyone's favourite Superman film – IV.
Instructions unclear, I heated a polymer to 300 degrees and then poured it into a cold glass bottle. The doctor said something about "shrapnel."
So you show granular sugar, but are pouring corn syrup into the boiling water? Can you elaborate a little more? Did you mix granular sugar with corn syrup and boiling water?
Yo that’s glass grade Mr.White
Got that blue
Knowing myself, I would probably find a way to cut myself with sugar glass…
Do they use this in movie scenes?!
That little nibble at the end
Thank you