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Because of the way they're made, I'd assume that any intrusions in them wouldn't impart them with the same properties - or in fact wouldn't form right at all and would just crack.
Yeah, the drops only exist because of the properties of glass from the rapid cooling (high tension surface, lower tension interior). So having any large contaminants that could interrupt that consistent surface would probably impede creation or at least make the drop much more fragile than pure glass.
I could be entirely wrong though.
I can't imagine encasing a liquid in the Pr. Rupert drops. Solids, with higher melting temperatures than glass, no problem. You could put a nasty broadhead arrow inside a drop (in principle), which would expose the barbs when the glass disintegrates. They'd have to leave the arrow in rather than risk removing it. Of course broadheads are already pretty unpleasant to imagine...er, um...receiving.
I don't see how you could make a drop with something in it. Their "manufacture" is very chaotic, you can't just place something inside.
I like Smarter Ever Day, but come on Destin, let the librarian man talk.
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