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Prince Rupert's drops have remained a scientific curiosity for nearly 400 years due to two unusual mechanical properties: [4] when the tail is snipped, the drop disintegrates explosively into powder, whereas the bulbous head can withstand compressive forces of up to 664,300 newtons (67,740 kg f).
Now an international research team has pinpointed the source of the bizarre shatter-resistant behavior behind Prince Rupert’s drops. The work was a collaboration of researchers from Purdue University, the University of Cambridge in the UK and Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia.
Prince Rupert is the key character in the King Crimson song Lizard from their 1970 album of the same name. The 23-minute suite includes several sections, one named Prince Rupert Awakes and another The Battle of Glass Tears (an artistic reference to the battle of Naseby) in turn including a subsection called Prince Rupert's Lament.
Prince Rupert's drop, glass objects created by dripping molten glass into cold water Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Prince Rupert .
Prince Harry’s legal battle against British ... the British press arm of the media empire founded by Rupert Murdoch. ... Top federal prosecutor in N.Y. resigns after being told to drop Mayor ...
Hugh Grant has called for the U.K. police to open a new criminal investigation into Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers. The actor joins a growing chorus of people who, in the wake of Prince ...
Prince Harry receives more than £10 million (over $12 million) in damages from News Group Newspapers ... Watson then called on Rupert Murdoch to “follow this corporate admission of guilt with a ...
To me and to people in the field “Prince Rupert’s Drops” is not the plural of a “Prince Rupert’s Drop” but is the name of a phenomenon called “Prince Rupert’s Drops”. So just as Wikipedia has (correctly) entries like “Systems theory”, “Law of sines”, “Linguistics” and “Milankovitch cycles”, it should have an ...