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A few reports have emerged of jawbreakers exploding after being heated. In 2003, a nine year old girl in Starke, Florida suffered severe burns when a jawbreaker exploded as she went to put it in her mouth [1]. A 2004 episode of the Discovery Channel television program MythBusters demonstrated that heating a jawbreaker in a microwave oven can cause the different layers inside to heat at different rates, yielding an explosive spray of very hot candy when compressed; Adam Savage and Christine Chamberlain received light burns after a jawbreaker exploded. Merely breaking the candy's spherical surface with one's teeth can be enough to cause it to explode.