[tifik]

Would/does that actually work? Its been a while since I watched SED Destins video about it, so I dont remember if they experiment with that. But intuitively, heating the glass so non-uniformly that the tail would melt and the bulb remained solid enough to keep the internal stresses intact, wouldnt that steep temperature gradient within the crystaline structure cause the entire drop to break?

[maxbond]

In this video someone does it and it seems to work.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ERDmKW65t38

But it's a very small drop and they don't melt it all the way to the bulb. I imagine that it could shatter in some circumstances.

(Incidentally glass isn't a crystal, but that's just a nitpick.),

[prox]

Is glass still considered a form of liquid? Think I remember reading something about that years ago.