It really is possible to blow up a coconut with chewing gum.

Crush a few pieces of unchewed gum into a cone with the tip pointing up and the bottom flat on a table, then hold a coconut in your hand to a certain height and smash it hard against the gum. We will find that the gum will not only not be smashed flat, but will instead smash a hole in the coconut .

This is because the chewing gum has a gum-based components, belonging to the non-Newtonian fluids in the tangential thickening fluid, this fluid in a large external force under the viscosity of the larger, the larger the external force, the greater the viscosity. When the external force is greater and faster, it itself becomes harder .

From a physical point of view, the gum base contained in the chewing gum makes the gum elastic, and when subjected to an external force, it absorbs energy through deformation. When this energy exceeds the strength of the coconut shell, the shell will break. However, this requires the gum base component of the chewing gum to remain sticky and elastic enough when subjected to a violent impact. Thus being able to generate enough impact to smash open the coconut.

Growing environment of coconut

Coconut is a tropical crop, suitable for growth in the high temperature and rainy low altitude hot and humid areas, the optimal temperature of 26-27 ℃, the average annual temperature of 24-25 ℃ or more, the temperature difference is small, frost-free throughout the year, sunny, the annual rainfall of more than 1,500-2,000 millimeters, and evenly distributed.

Coconut is distributed in Indonesia to the Pacific Islands, Asia, the southeastern region; mainly in 23 ° S-23 ° N, mostly in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the equatorial coastal areas.

Coconut main producing areas for Sri Lanka, Malaysia, India, the Philippines and so on. China's Hainan Province, Taiwan, southern Yunnan, southern Guangdong islands, Leizhou Peninsula and other tropical areas have a small amount of planting, of which the total area of cultivation in Hainan Province accounted for 99% of China.