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Subject: Why does a pen explode?

Date: Thu May 8 17:14:48 2003
Posted by Brian
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Area of science: Engineering
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IF you don't know, when a pen explodes, the ink case insides magically does 
something, and the ink comes out, all over the inside of the pen, and 
occasionally YOU. I am asking this becauase I recently lost a pair of pants to 
a exploded pen that was missing the back cap. (I have a bad habit of chewing 
on the back of my pen.) But my chewing has nothing to do with it's explosion, 
this happens to hundreds every day. So what gives? Why does it explode? Can I 
stop it? HELP!


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