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Exploding High-speed Christmas Bauble



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Andy Marmery finds out what happens when he heats up a glass bauble filled with a tiny amount of water. The results are, predictably, explosive. However, shooting the experiment at 18,000 and then 34,000 frames per second with a Phantom v1610 camera reveals the shattering forces at work.

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