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Originally Posted by IanNVJ35
In all the thousands I tested only about 5 'blew' and when they did it was really severe and usually due to a manufacturing fault. The whole building shook, glass was atomized and turned into fine shards and dust the stuck in the walls and got everywhere.
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Wow. I guess if one considers that the CRT has excluded a space to the level of a vacuum, then when that space collapses with the full force of atmospheric pressure, there must be one large transient pressure drop in the region, then that creates a propagating wave outwards from that zone complete with flying glass. An implosion is only an implosion for a time, then the particles leave the area at a high velocity radiating outwards, analogous to an explosion.