“Rupert's”

The following 3 entries include the term Rupert's.

Prince Rupert's metal

noun

: prince's metal

Rupert's drop

noun

: a congealed blob of glass formed by dropping melted glass into water and setting up such residual stresses that the globule explodes violently when the surface is scratched or a piece broken off


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