How to Melt glass in your microwave

[shiftgood1]

THIS IS GREAT! I appreciate your video. It and others will save me from buying a $100.00 to $2,000.00 glass melting apparatus. Also, let me, if I can Praise my Alpha and Omega for this idea.

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[MrMachinimator]

i want to make a glass pipe

[etherealgirls]

Um, maybe title this one "How to make little glass bombs".

[TheOwlcatGirl]

What was the point of melting it if u end up breaking it at the end?

[airbear212]

its an amorphous solid

[Fangfm]

i like how the glass brakes in the end. c:

[Grimlydwarf]

@Fangfm why? was it going really fast?

[Fangfm]

@Grimlydwarf

lol, pardon my spelling. I meant to spell "breaks." I just found it funny how he went through all the trouble of melting the glass only to have it break in the end.

[lovefactorygirl]

Microwaves heat your food by vibrating the water molecules, creating friction, in turn heating your food, or whatever you desire to throw in there. cool :]

[Gmc42082]

has anyone said "amorphous solid" yet?

[JohnMalcolm]

@Gmc42082 If they did they were wrong - the comment below is correct

[MrMattcf]

Glass is a liquid it just has an extreamly high viscosity.

[Botobito]

OK, ANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD?

[killerslayer543]

sand - glass - goo - wierd glass - pieces - recycled glass - bottle and so on again

[linagee]

What is the hottest temperature the torch can get? (ie, wouldn't it eventually melt just by continuing to use the torch?)

[FrankaDith]

This is smart ,if you could stick the glass on the top and have a nice tear drop that you could cool by opening the door you would have something worth saving TY4 dat

[Joshoert1]

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[a1boywonder]

has any one seen  " melt a glass bottle in your toaster oven " video ?

[Meltingice7]

Fire surge

[MrKokos69]

aaa....fuck you  asshole

[neothemagical]

I still haven't seen someone post that microwave radiation is absorbed better by hotter matierials, so preheating a portion of the glass to be significantly hotter than the rest is a crucial step.

[baadshepherd]

@neothemagical it isn't absorbed better per se, but the way the microwaves heat is by rotating molecules. It is a lot easier to do this when the molecules are free, as in a liquid, then it is when they are stationary, as in a solid.

[TheFerruccio]

Title: How to melt glass in your microwave

Step 1: USE A TORCH

:P

[KNeu21]

@TheFerruccio Step 2: Buy a new microwave. :P

[rafii6311]

@TheFerruccio

if you dont heat the glass first it will burst

[MelBestelable]

Hilarious!

[supperstorm]

that was fantastic and funny

[7755jj]

dude.. u blow glass... ahahaha

[roy20050]

thats stranfe it show's white and not red i mean i melt glass bottles in firepits but it never turns white... RADIATION lol

[teddyd30]

I understand the "how" of melting glass in the microwave, now just explain to me the "why" of melting glass in the microwave...

[sooflim]

Stupid......carefull your microwave also melting or maybe blow up huahhahahah

[vicrocks6789]

you made a penis mark on the glass ! CONGRATS

[vicrocks6789]

omg thats retardedly awesome

[MrHoopRemix]

kah mah ha mah ha

[bobort29]

BORING!!!!!!!!

[nzbels]

I Like it how he went through all that process and in the end it breaks... LOL

[pyrocrazyUSA]

uhh, propane torch... inside? carbon monoxide will kill you. except this isnt propane

[cakekillus]

that can't be good for the microwave

[yamaharider575]

glass is a liquid

[soadrockstar1]

the waiting game

[YTBYlover]

lol nice ending.

[WolYou]

This works because microwave radiation actually "moves" the molecules in liquid stuff around violently at high frequencies causing friction. Thats generating the heat. You've started with a very high temperature (over 1600°C?) . So the micro "added" a little extra energy to it making it even hotter.

[Woorna]

slightly off topic but i've dug bottles out of 50s landfills to find the highest point of the bottle considerably thinner, in fact in some cases a bottom corner has opened out into a hole. some glass does flow naturally over time.

[rorrt]

isnt that because glass is an ultra cooled liquid. thats why this can happen.

in my school in the art department there were really old windows from the 50s and over the summer it got super hot, and the windows around the bottom became thicker and denser than the top of the window...

[kougsohv9]

You are totally correct, glass is a supercooled liquid. if left alone for a long time, glass can lose it's shape and even bend without any heating. however, I am actually heating the glass close to it's melting point with the microwaves emitted by the microwave.

[mserebreny]

this is a stupid myth I wish would stop going around the internet - if glass could flow simply from the heat in the summer over a period of 50 years, then the pieces that were made thousands of years ago would be nothing but colored globs of glass that had collapsed into themselves. The older glass is thicker at the bottom because it was made with the older 'crown glass' process where the window started out on a pipe where the glass was formed into a bowl, spun into disks and cut into sheets

[enter693]

no its because gravity is pulling the glass down...

[mserebreny]

no it's not because, as I said in the comment you responded to, glass pieces made in ancient times wouldn't be anything more than a blob today

Also - in the house I used to live in we had older windows, some were thick on the bottom, some on the top, how do you explain that? Gravity A La Phoebe Buffay?

[rorrt]

There is 1 or 2 basic flaw in the ancient glass condition argument you pose.

If you look at really old stain glass you can notice its change in shape over time.

plus most ancient glass isnt out in the open 24/7. and most older glass has been treated. or has formed naturally and so its melting, or molding point is much higher.

[mserebreny]

The Key here is Viscosity -measured in units called "Poise." Molasses is about the viscosity of molten glass, 500 Poise, which is obviously prone to flow dramatically; for comparison, Brie cheese is about 500,000 Poise, and barely moves at all... at room temperature, glass is 10^20th poise - metallic lead is 10 to the 11th power Poise - or about a billion times more fluid as glass. If the glass windows flow, then the lead holding them in should have melted to the floor a billion times faster :)

[rorrt]

i agree with all your facts

but i am telling you, i really cannot explain the scientific explanation as my knowledge of fluid movement is very limited

but i would only be repeating myself

the glass odviously wasnt super thick on the bottom, it may only have been minimeteres. or even tenths of a mm. but it was noticable

although i cannot fully explain this odviously, i will attempt

1 the glass was thin from the beginning.

2 the glass was very low quality

3 the summer was hot consistantly.

[mserebreny]

Glass must be heated to 2200 degrees before it can flow - "Low quality" glass (just silica sand) has a melting point even higher - We (I say 'we' because I've been a glassblower for quite some time) spend so much money on glass to lower the melting point.... because of what I said before (units of viscosity -poise) a 'flow' of even 10 angstrom units at the bottom (a change of only a few atoms thickness) would theoretically take as long as the age of the universe itself; about ten billion years

[kougsohv9]

I suppose I could try this again and try to get a reading using an infrared thermometer. but I'm afraid it would just reflect off the glass and metal shield and give me a bad reading.. any ideas? it's a good idea though..

[mserebreny]

you got the glass to flow - which means you hit at least 2200F - if you want a more accurate reading you can get a pyrometer

[JohnMalcolm]

@mserebreny Is that true? I have heard many times about old windows being thicker at the bottom but have never personally checked.

[rorrt]

WELL I AM TELLING YOU AS A FACT...

the glass before the summer didnt have a sort of ripple effect, and the glass though it wasnt totally noticeably thicker, but from the side you can see the distinct change of shape.

[TheBetterGame]

@kougsohv9 you are both wrong, glass is not a super cooled liquid. There is extensive documentation on the subject. Have fun learning.

[kougsohv9]

@TheBetterGame I always have fun learning. Thanks!

[AlexSleyore]

@TheBetterGame well then ill fill you in quick, they used to think that because before glass could be formed into perfect windows, it was throw while liquid at the ground, one side thus became larger and this side was away the base for windows because it distorted the look less and was less likey to break. The windows in your school never did this.

[itsaidhi]

@TheBetterGame

You're right glass is an amorphous solid—a state somewhere between those two states of matter

[kratt1547mamboa]

@TheBetterGame glass is a liquid:P

[sandstar102]

@TheBetterGame its melted sand.......something i thought interseting as is, did you know when lightning hits a beach it can create glass?

[TheBetterGame]

@sandstar102 it's not actually made from sand. It's a composite of several different chemicals, which includes silicate, which is also found in sand. Minor detail, but it's pretty significant.

[PrinceOfDarkness111]

@TheBetterGame It's sand super glued together then heated up.

[ManEatingLunchBox]

penis pump

[iminyourbasement]

rorrt that is the most retarded thing ive heard today, a minimeter does no exist, you probably mean micrometer witch is100th of a milimeter(10,000th of a meter) witch is retarded because that would mean your windows are 0.01 inch tall in order for you question to work.... a fruit fly could break the window just by climbing it.also if the window was a tenth of a milimeter it would still be about 1-3 inches tall in order for it to be stable. so your wrong.

[rorrt]

maybe they were made out of plastic then...

so can you explain the ripple effect on the windows?

because as i said, there wasnt a ripple effect, then there was? now it could have been heat, or because of the window paynes shrinking under the heat. or it could have been age...i have no idea. but to be honest, it looks to me in retrospect, they were plastic. because the windows were joint with a courtyard, so i think theft wasnt such an issue, because you would have to get over razor wire

[iminyourbasement]

your a retard if you cant tell plastic from glass...im not kiding,i dont want to offend you but that was just plain stupid, if you can tell me 2 ways to tell glass from plastic not using a flame i will continue talking to you. im not kiding dont fucking talk to me unless you inform me about the 2 ways you discovered....im not joking.

[rorrt]

quote: "MAYBE they were made out of plastic then" the word "maybe" has a part to play, like perhaps, or there is a posibility.

and you CAN get very good plastic

though it would be actually made out of Plexiglas, though to be honest, i really didnt knock on the window to make sure either way, glass or other.

and besides, your starting to bore me. start to talk to me like a human. and maybe i'll continue to talk to you.

and for fuck sake, stop saying "Retard" like it gives you superiority.

[iminyourbasement]

fuck you until you tell me these reasons

spaz

[iminyourbasement]

BDawg1942 you are the one who is a retard.you should tell your speech teacher in your junior high school that you need to work on spelling the words "your" and "you" ,because "ur" and "u" are not actual words and i will not go to wikipedia to learn what a micrometer is because wikipedia is a flawed website where anyone can write about somthing, this means that information obtained can be inaccurate.and you should meet a twelve year old and clarify your own intellect before questioning mine

[iminyourbasement]

dont you mean 22.

[EmbracingHaight]

Are you seriously that bored, that you sit and troll random videos on You Tube? Grow up buddy. This video is trying to teach people different ways of fusing glass. But aparently you seem to think its here for you to take out your frustrations on complete strangers. Really man, name calling over the internet.....all I can say is LOL!

[BT7M]

@rorrt I'm studing chemistry at uni, and I learned a cool word to classify this type of ultra cooled liquid - I'ts called solid

[moffboffjoe]

it looks like body armor from the a swat movie

[TehUltimateHaxzor]

Aww you broke it =[

[enjoiskateboarding76]

if i was a nerd i would say: it looks like body armor from the a swat movie

[Wowplayr666]

lol shape of glass when u pull it out

[Skinnydevil1995]

LOL!

[videos12344444444]

hahhahahaha broken x)

[alall94]

really cool