▲ | Ask HN: Why is my 100M Nautica Voyage Eau de Toilette glass bottle unbreakable? | |
2 points by prmph 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ||
I accidentally discovered this when I accidentally dropped it from a high table onto a hard tile floor. Since then I thrown it on the floor multiple times without even it sustaining even a little chip. Any explanation? Why would a cheap bottle of perfume be this unusually strong, when I've looking for cookware and drink-ware that is even half as strong without success? | ||
▲ | JohnFen 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |
I'm no materials scientist, but here's been my observations in working with glass receptacles and bottles over the years: Shape is a very important aspect of how strong glass things are. Perfume bottles (or any small bottle) tend to be stronger just due to the fact that they usually lack large, flat-ish areas and the thickness-to-surface area ratio tends to be higher. For instance, if you drop a small glass soda bottle and a large glass soda bottle, the large one is far more likely to suffer damage than the small one. |