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<p>[QUOTE="42Skeezix, post: 119618, member: 40"]I once had a "bunch of cigars" figural glass bottle. I set it on a glass shelf near a window...in the winter. I'm sitting there and hear this ping/snap kinda sound from that shelf area. I check the bottle and it now has a crack from bottom to top.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another time we were "privy" digging in the winter...temp around 30. The privies are usually 6-8' deep. At that depth the ground temp is constant at around 50 degrees. Usually you wrap up any bottles right away when you dig them. Well we dug a Turlingtons extract quack medicine bottle and just set it outside the hole because a lot of cool stuff was just coming out. About 30 seconds later we hear a loud POP. The poor little bottle had shattered into hundreds of tiny pieces. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you dug a heavy glass type soda/beer bottle when very cold out you could watch the little fish scale flakes form and fall off the surface of the glass.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="42Skeezix, post: 119618, member: 40"]I once had a "bunch of cigars" figural glass bottle. I set it on a glass shelf near a window...in the winter. I'm sitting there and hear this ping/snap kinda sound from that shelf area. I check the bottle and it now has a crack from bottom to top. Another time we were "privy" digging in the winter...temp around 30. The privies are usually 6-8' deep. At that depth the ground temp is constant at around 50 degrees. Usually you wrap up any bottles right away when you dig them. Well we dug a Turlingtons extract quack medicine bottle and just set it outside the hole because a lot of cool stuff was just coming out. About 30 seconds later we hear a loud POP. The poor little bottle had shattered into hundreds of tiny pieces. If you dug a heavy glass type soda/beer bottle when very cold out you could watch the little fish scale flakes form and fall off the surface of the glass.[/QUOTE]
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