space fisherman

Chapter 136: Rupert's Tears

"So hard? What is that? Why does it look like glass?"

Wang Husheng muttered quietly.

Ye Yuan glanced at the stall and said with a mysterious smile:

"That's glass"

"Ah?" The two people couldn't believe their ears. Bullets can't break glass? Is it bulletproof glass?

Ye Yuan knew what these two guys were thinking, and then added, "Ordinary glass, a very ordinary kind."

The two of them were completely confused at this time. The boss said that bullets could not break it, and at the same time he also said that this is ordinary glass. Is this contradictory?

Three people were chatting here. The girl setting up the stall probably looked at the people around her, and looked in the direction of Ye Yuan.

It has to be said that Wang Husheng looks very strong. The girl smiled slyly and said to Wang Husheng:

"Little brother, you are so strong, you must be very strong, why don't you come and try?"

Wang Husheng was unexpectedly called out by such a young girl.

According to his character, since the girls have already been named, he still wants to go up and give it a try. But Ye Yuan just said that this glass cannot be broken by bullets, so is it possible for him to go up and break it?

Wang Husheng saw that everyone around him was looking over. At this time, he glanced at the glass tadpoles on the table, then looked at Ye Yuan, and was about to go up and try it. Anyway, 50 yuan was not too much.

Ye Yuan originally didn't want to be troublesome, but he didn't expect the girl to find Wang Husheng. He grabbed Wang Husheng who was about to step forward, turned to the girl and said with a smile:

"Miss, let me tell you the rules first."

When the girl saw someone taking the bait, she quickly said the rules.

"It's 50 yuan a time. If you break this glass, you win. I'll get 10 times the bonus. How about you give it a try?"

Ye Yuan glanced at the girl strangely. The girl looked to be in her early 20s and should still be a college student.

She was wearing a dress, not of any famous brand, and a pair of casual cloth shoes, which looked very clean, but the clothes she wore only cost 200-300 yuan from a street stall.

Ye Yuan's original intention was not to expose the girl, but who asked him to name Wang Hu for giving birth? He couldn't blame himself. Ye Yuan walked to the table with a smile and scanned the QR code to pay.

When the girl saw that Ye Yuan had paid, she picked up a glass tadpole, held the tail of the glass tadpole in her little hand, and placed the big head of the tadpole on the table.

Ye Yuan was happy when he saw this.

"Young lady, if you act like this, I could easily hurt you if I break the glass, so why don't I hold it myself?"

There was a trace of panic in the girl's eyes, but it quickly disappeared.

"No, you can't hold it. I'm afraid of hurting others. After all, this stall is mine, so I should hold it."

Ye Yuan thought for a while and said:

"Okay, then you hold the other end. I need to beat the tail. After all, the tail of Rupert's Tears is easy to break. If you are afraid that I will hurt someone, how about I crush it with my bare hands?"

After speaking, Ye Yuan looked at the girl with a smile.

When people around heard that Ye Yuan could crush the glass with his bare hands, they all laughed, especially the young man who had been beaten just now.

"Just blow it."

Ye Yuan ignored the comments of the people around him and just stared at the girl.

At this time, the girl's face was already flushed and she didn't know how to proceed. The people watching the excitement also discovered the problem.

Some attentive people still heard what Ye Yuan said about Rupert's Tears just now. What is that thing? Is it the glass tadpole on the table? Does it sound like the name of a gem?

The girl glared at Ye Yuan, took out 50 yuan in cash from her backpack, and threw it directly on the table.

"I won't do your business, huh!"

Ye Yuan put away the money and shook his head.

Everyone also knew by this time that this thing must have a mechanism, and many younger people were already searching on their mobile phones for what Rupert's Tears were.

Seeing that it was impossible to do business if this situation continued, the girl put away the payment code and the hammer and left.

At this time, someone had already found the answer and said loudly, "Damn it, I was fooled. This thing can't be damaged without hitting the tail."

Ye Yuan also left here with Wang Husheng and You Zhiyong.

"Boss, what are those Rupert's Tears you are talking about?"

Wang Husheng asked curiously.

As Ye Yuan walked, he explained the origin of Rupert's Tears to the two people behind him.

"Rupert's Tears, also known as Dutch Tears, are tadpole-shaped glass teardrops formed by naturally dropping molten glass into ice water by gravity.

This kind of glass teardrop has wonderful physical properties. The teardrop itself is no different from solid glass, and it is safe even if it is pinched or hammered.

However, if you grab its slender tail and apply a little pressure, the entire glass tear will explode and scatter in an instant, completely shattering."

"Why is this?" Wang Husheng continued to ask?

"The principle behind the fragmentation of Rupert's Tears is called "crack propagation", which originates from the uneven pressure within it.

When molten glass is dropped into ice water, the surface of the glass cools rapidly to form a shell, and the shell

The glass underneath is still liquid.

When the glass in the core also cools and condenses, the liquid glass naturally shrinks toward the already solid outer shell due to volume changes.

As a result, the glass near the surface is subject to great compressive stress, while the core position is pulled to the surroundings and subjected to tensile stress.

When the tail is damaged, these residual stresses are quickly released, causing cracks to spread throughout the entire body in an instant and become fragmented."

Ye Yuan patiently told everything he knew.

The two of them still hadn't fully digested this and felt how magical this thing was.

It was already noon when a few people were strolling around. During this period, they had seen a lot of high-end ornamental fish and some strange fish. Ye Yuan also took out his mobile phone from time to time to take pictures and look up some varieties of ornamental fish that he didn't know much about.

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It was soon noon, and the three of them did not return to Deng Kai's booth.

Instead, he walked out of the exhibition and had lunch for a few people at a small restaurant nearby.

There were a lot of people in the hotel, perhaps because of the nearby exhibition. The hotel was already full, and Ye Yuan and the three of them finally found a table in a corner.

The waiter took the menu, and after a few people ordered a few home-cooked dishes, the waiter went to receive the new guests.

At this time, Ye Yuan found two girls sitting on the platform not far from him, one of whom was the one who had just made money with Rupert's Tears at the exhibition.

Strictly speaking, this girl is not lying, after all, it is indeed glass, but breaking it requires a method, and this method is unknown to most people.

Ye Yuan could tell that the family conditions of these two girls were very average, which could be seen from the clothes they wore.

The girl at the exhibition was poking the noodles in her bowl with chopsticks, muttering, "I'm so unlucky today. I was exposed before I even made any money. It's all your fault. You said this method is feasible, but who knew so many people knew about it."

"Rupert's Tears"

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