Bare-handed Bottle Smash

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Physics, Science, Implosion, Cavitation, Bottles, Vacuum, Amasci, Beaty, Magic Tricks, Experiments

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The hidden science behind the bottle-smash trick? CAVITATION! If you have a home-built vacuum water bottle, you can easily see the violent implosions as they happen.

  1. By: wbeaty
  2. Categories Entertainment, Science & Tech
  3. Views 86,763
  4. Added :23-Aug-07
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  • THANK YOUUU!!

    THANK YOUUUU!!! 5*

    By pe3er 1199292790
  • Wow thanks!

    I've always wondered why this works. It took so many tries to break a 40 ounce beer bottle. Metacafe won't let me post a link to my vid on the site but if you search 40 ounce it will be there. If I had left a gap and made sure there was no air in the water it probably would have been easier. Thank you for demystifying.

    By contraflip 1199320601
    • the POWER ...of stale water

      The difference when using stale water is amazing. Or boil some water, then cool it. That wine bottle would have shattered on the first try if I hadn't tried using my fist. I haven't tried boiled water in the gallon glass jug, but it *might* work. (Use a short hunk of 2x4 to guarantee success.)

      Here's how to link videos, just trim down and remove the dot:

      40-oz bottle smash
      metacafe com/watch/721703/

      By wbeaty 1199479905
    • WOW wow WOW

      never seen anything like that!

      By kate-beckinsale-nude 1255627609
  • i must try

    sweet

    By madmax440 1196148693
  • WARNING: DANGER

    fej25 on Makezine blog reports slicing his hand when performing this trick in the past. The bottle shattered unexpectedly, and since he was gripping it tightly at the time, he received a serious laceration.

    Suggestion: hold the bottle by the upper part of the neck. The neck is a bit more robust, and when bottles break, often the neck does not. Regardless, always expect that your entire bottle *might* collapse into razor-edged shards.

    By wbeaty 1188366593
  • My hero

    .

    By tdk7086 1200495983
  • now that was a waste

    of perfectly good alcohol :)

    By UBIQ.TV 1199342695
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