tags: How It's Made: Toothpicks, material science, engineering, technology, streaming video
This video follows a majestic birch log as it goes through the process of being made into millions of itty bitty toothpicks.
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First, watch this:
Last week, GrrlScientist posted a cool video showing a trick with two forks and a toothpick:
tags: two-fork toothpick trick, physics,
Since we all had so much fun explaining the video to each other, I thought that all of you might be interested to read physicist Chad Orzel's explanation, along with cool pictures, of the physi
That's cool, but I still don't understand how the toothpicks get pointy. Seems like this system would generate rectangular prisms, not pointed toothpicks.
Something to do with the tumbling polishing process I should think. I can see how that would make them round, but apparently that sharpens them too.
Either that or little elves take each one and put it on an itty bitty lathe.