Cutting open a golf ball

Disclaimer: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME unless you have ADULT SUPERVISION (so you don't cut off your fingers).

My son is doing a science project related to golf balls, so we cut open several of them. Some have a rubber core wrapped in "rubber bands" - tightly wrapped, quite compressed. On those, once you get the outer shell cut partway through, it starts to "pop" - then it vomits its guts in a pretty cool reaction. Watch and see!

If you listen closely, you can hear the "popping" - as the compressed interior breaks open the compromised outer shell - before it ejects its contents.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• golf balls
• science projects

[SimpleGamerGeek]

It's AALLIIIIIIIVE!

[lapsebraindead]

@SimpleGamerGeek Heh, yeah, it did act that way! The first one that did that was even better. Of course, about half of them were solid rubber cores instead of the rubber core packed with the compressed rubber strips, so they were "boring" when cut.

[lapsebraindead]

If you listen closely, you can hear the "popping" - as the compressed interior breaks open the compromised outer shell - before it ejects its contents.

[D4N4RR]

I cut one open and it was like concrete inside

[MrEinstain]

@maloney4lfc well,that's an idea :D

[maloney4lfc]

i never knew they hide cannabis in golf balls!! 

[appleintosh]

i have to do this for science. a golf ball half will be a perfect nucleus for a cell model

[itzRrYyAaNn]

what kind of ball was that