This is not a mythbusting as it actually happened, but don't know exactly why. A jawbreaker exploded in a kid's hand after he heated it in a microwave. Same thing happened to another kid, severly burning her face.
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Gobstoppers , known as jawbreakers in Canada and the United States, are a type of hard sweet or candy. They are usually round, usually range from about 1 cm across to 3 cm across (though much bigge...
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The cast of the television series MythBusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like. This is a list of the various myths tested on the show as well as...
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Exploding Jawbreaker ranks 121,165 out of all 118,643 episodes (of all shows) on TV.com. ... MythBusters fans have written a total of 1 reviews of Exploding Jawbreaker. ... In the Exploding Jawbreaker myth, Adam and intern, Christine Chamberlain both suffered mild burns while testing. Christine was burned the most,
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GREENVILLE, S.C. -- A Greenville County, S.C., family says a piece of candy they purchased blew up in their child's hand. ... A release from the Greenville County Sheriff's Office said that the unidentified family bought two Jawbuster candies from a BI-LO grocery store Thursday afternoon. ... The parents said that around 6:45 p.m.
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Taquandra Diggs said she was holding a large piece of jawbreaker candy in her hand and when she went to put it in her mouth, it exploded. ... The girl suffered severe burns on her face, neck and arm.
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A jawbreaker can explode when bitten after being heated in a microwave oven or standing out in the sunlight while still in the wrapper. ... Microwave heating of a jawbreaker can cause the different layers inside to heat at different rates, yielding an explosive spray of very hot candy when compressed.
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