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What Is a Bologna Bottle?
Original: Bologna Bottle
The Bologna bottle, a thin-walled glass bottle historically made in Bologna, Italy, is drawing renewed attention online. The curiosity of the object is that despite being so fragile it can be shattered by dropping a small object inside, its outer surface is so hard it can strike other materials without breaking. Readers are sharing the odd physics and history behind the old glassmaking curiosity.
Why now: Readers find the paradoxical fragility and hardness of this historical glass bottle surprising and worth discussing.
Evidence
- Bologna Bottle · _josh_meyer_ · 20
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