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The Dynamics of Prince Rupert's Drops PROFESSOR DUFOUR, of Lausanne, has been engaged in a research on the Development of Heat which accompanies the explosion of Prince Rupert's Drops. The examination of bodies which, in modern language, are said to be in a state of “molecular tension” is of the highest importance to dynamics, and the investigation to which we now refer is an example of the kind of work that is really required.
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Physics . Nature 1, 89 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001089d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/001089d0