# Strenth needed to squeeze open a 12oz can of Budweiser

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 6, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strenth-needed-to-squeeze-open-a-12oz-can-of-budweiser/293232 "2005-03-06T19:19:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strenth-needed-to-squeeze-open-a-12oz-can-of-budweiser/293232/21 "2005-03-07T23:02:30Z")

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> In that case, there’s equal pressure on all parts of the can, and it’s the weak point that’ll go. In the case of gripping, the pressure is only on a few parts of the can, so the break is going to be somewhere around there.

Actually, in either case, the pressure would be evenly distributed on all parts of the can (except for the minor detail that lower parts of the can will be at higher pressure, but we could do this experiment in zero g). The only difference with squeezing is that the can would be deformed where it was being gripped, and this deformation might result in a weaking of the can at the point of deformation.

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**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strenth-needed-to-squeeze-open-a-12oz-can-of-budweiser/293232/22 "2005-03-08T03:20:09Z")

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> [@bras0798](#):
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> When I was at University, I knew a guy who had a glass eye. Apparently, he lost the original eye through a bet when he was at school…
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> He and a mate put a plastic bottle of a drink (don’t know all the details, sorry) in a vice, and dared each other to take turns tightening the vice - you guessed it - it exploded on his turn and a shard of plastic blinded him in one eye. So kanicbird’s suggestion of a bag is a good idea - maybe some safety goggles too.

Do that with the can of Bud, and… _you’d be sorry, Budweiser._

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