Mythbusters 4

Today I watched Mythbusters again, this episode was very intresting. There were news reports about Jawbreakers exploding in young childrens mouths when they applied pressure on to the jaw breaker. A key part to this myth is that the kids would put the Jawbreaker in the microwave for a little while then bit them. So the mythbusters set up a rig to apply an equal force to what the average mouth could apply and tested this myth. They first heated the jawbreaker up then applied force equal to one bite of the average human. Results were clear that the jawbreaker exploded. The reasoning could of been many one was the mix of Vitamin C and the chemicals in the jaw breaker to cause this explosion after radiated heat was added into the mix. And the other was some colors of the jawbreaker heated faster than others so if the colors were in the middle of the jawbreaker it would cause it to expand and after pressure is applied it could cause an explosion. The color green was rapidly heated compared to other colors and it held that heat for quite some time. The other myth tested out was the myth about deadly playing cards. I've seen people throw cards into watermelons cut bananas cut a cigarette in half while in someones mouth. The question was can the card kill someone so they put it to the test and first threw it as fast as they could into a balistics gel that replicates human flesh and saw that it can't penetrate skin. They built a rig that made cards fly top speeds of 150 mph. and yet still couldnt penetrate skin any farther than .5 inch wen they tried it on a real person all it did was cause a few cuts. This was a really intresting episode they brought physics and chemistry into this episode knowing what I know now I wouldnt ever put a jawbreaker in the microwave. And I know a card has to little a mass to penetrate someones skin. Final thing I have to say is the guy I wanted to win Top Chef won and I'm happy about that.