@afungusamongus I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Do you mean that it'll be harder on the chemistry glassware used to synthesize the substances or that literal water ice is hard on drinking glassware.

I think a collection of multiple pieces is candy corn, but I would argue that a single piece is more properly referred to as a "candy kernel".

There's a crap-load of knives and machetes just out of frame

Then there's the stars whose light will NEVER reach us because of the expansion of space.

It IS possible to breed a healthy purebred animal, BUT it isn't as easy as just allowing genetic diversity to do it's thing.

For example: I discovered an iterative process for generating sets of coefficients for a trinomial expansion... but then discovered that someone had already published a direct method for an arbitrary number of variables (n-nomial expansion).
ie. Every time it's happened to me it's already been done better. I suppose I should instead focus on improving things that already exist and let new discoveries happen serendipitiously.