On Fri 20 Jun 2008 09:16:43p, Steve Pope told us...

> Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
>
>>On Fri 20 Jun 2008 08:45:11p, sf told us...
>
>>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:49:59 -0700 (PDT), merryb >
>>> wrote:
>
>>>>Have you ever dropped Corelle on your tile floor? For something that's
>>>>suppossed to be unbreakable, it's surprising how many thousands of
>>>>shards of glass you have to clean up!
>
>>> I've heard that before... why stick with Corelle when other dinnerware
>>> is so much prettier?
>
>>Under most circumstances, they are relatively unbreakable. I don't have
>>a set of Corelle, but I do have multiple plain Corelle fruit bowls that
>>I use to feed out five cats when they're served canned food. I don't
>>like feeding them out of metal or plastic containers.
>
> As I child I was curious about the claim that a Corelle item
> would not break when dropped with normal force. I dropped a cereal
> bowl on the floor from shoulder height several times, and it did not
> break in the slightest. Then, I dropped it on-edge, and it
> shattered into hundreds if not thousands of pieces. So I would
> say it is a reasonably strong, very brittle material.
>
> My mom was not impressed with the science value of this experiment.
>
> Steve
>

LOL! It is glass, after all, but a ceramic type glass similar to that used
for glass top cooktops. Dropping it on edge is something like hitting a
boxer on his glass jaw. Utter destruction.

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Wayne Boatwright
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