14 DAY TRIAL // First things first, be warned: the trick shown in the video below is pretty impressive, but you really shouldn't try it at home. Not unless you are willing to risk ending up in an emergency room.
This being said, let's go back to business as usual. As it turns out, it is very much possible cut glass using nothing but a pair of scissors. The catch is that, in order for it to work, you have to do it underwater.
This is precisely what the woman in the footage available below does. She simply grabs a piece of glass, submerges it in a bowl of water and then uses a run-of-the-mill pair of scissors to cut it into the shape of a circle.
In fact, the lady appears to be having such an easy time turning the piece of glass into a circle that, from where I stand, it looks as if she were dealing with regular paper.
The woman insists that this is not some sort of trick. Mind you, she even provides a science-based explanation for why it is possible to cut glass with a pair of scissors, provided that the glass is first submerged in water.
“Water causes glass to crack more easily because when a water molecule enters the crack, a reaction occurs in which a silicon-oxygen bond at the crack and an oxygen-hydrogen bond in the water are cleaved, creating two hydroxyl groups attached to the silicon.”
“As a result, the length of the crack grows by the size of one bond rupture. The water reaction reduces the energy necessary to break the silicon-oxygen bonds, thus the crack grows faster,” she says, citing Scientific American.
Truth be told, the glass circle that she manages to carve with the help of her trusty pair of scissors isn't all that well defined. On the contrary, it is a wee rugged at the edges. Then again, this does not change the fact that this trick is pretty impressive.
