Burnt rubber turns into glass?
07-28-2008, 10:42 PM
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Burnt rubber turns into glass? My burnt rubber turned to glass. I melted some rubber, came back a few days later and found some black glass.
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07-28-2008, 10:52 PM
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Impossible that it's glass. Glass is melted sand. Since tyres are made of synthetic rubber made from oil, it's possible that the "glass" you saw was some form of plastic--i.e. by melting your tires, you changed the hydrocarbon polymer from a flexible rubber to a hard plastic.
07-29-2008, 08:34 AM
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There is no way that rubber will melt into glass.
There is no way that asphalt + rubber = sand /glass.
However I could see the rubber pieces somehow crystallizing through various heating/cooling cycles mixed with humidity or some random natural fluke.
You're not going to get sand hot enough by doing a burn out to turn it into glass - think heat from lightning that will do that. Your tire would blow out if it got that hot.
Still pretty neat though. Maybe you could bring it to your local university and see if they can test it
There is no way that asphalt + rubber = sand /glass.
However I could see the rubber pieces somehow crystallizing through various heating/cooling cycles mixed with humidity or some random natural fluke.
You're not going to get sand hot enough by doing a burn out to turn it into glass - think heat from lightning that will do that. Your tire would blow out if it got that hot.
Still pretty neat though. Maybe you could bring it to your local university and see if they can test it
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07-29-2008, 08:08 PM
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wow thats so funny.... lol!!! magic tires!!!
and i thought that looked like glass, because it IS glass!! i dont think you should park there anymore....
and i thought that looked like glass, because it IS glass!! i dont think you should park there anymore....
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Unless the rain washed it all off and into a nice neat little pile just to mess w/ your head 
This would be my guess too.
