Glass Question Quasi Crosspost

[kbobam]

Just posted this photo over at JaboLand in

a "Check Out My New Marble!" kind of way.

But what I'd like to do here is ask our resident

glass craftsmen just what's going on with this.

I've been assuming that 'matching marble stands'

are made from a single marble of the same type.

But sometimes they seem to look like more volume

of glass than you'd get melting a marble. Is this

just another one of the many 'illusions' I have to

deal with each day?

[Steph]

You could test the volume with a beaker of water.

[Ric]

If that's a 3/4" marble, it's volume is about 0.221 cubic inches. You could probably get a reasonable estimate of the disk (stand) using pi x radius^2 x height.

[kbobam]

I did try to use myself as a human balance scale, but only

succeeded in doing a really poor Hindu deity impersonation. ( :

[Ric]

You paint a pretty funny mental image, I must say. But seriously, if you tell me the diameter of the marble and the weight of both pieces . . .

Please be careful with these kind of questions, Bob. They're like nerd-nip.