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Boiling Water In Zero G

Posted by Hemos on from the pretty-pictures dept.

Dr. Manhattan writes: "NASA has released some movies showing how water boils in microgravity... and it's very different from how it behaves at one G. This has implications for the design of cooling systems in space and perhaps power plants on Earth."

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  1. Water? by heliocentric · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ahem - "Using a freon coolant as their liquid, they conducted a series of boiling experiments on the space shuttle during 5 missions..." [bold added by me] and the exact info on the substance in those main boiling photos (the one showing lots of bubles compared to one big one) is preciesly "Fluid: Freon R-113, Heat Flux: 8 W/cm2 , Subcooling: 5 F." As listed on POOL BOILING EXPERIMENT as linked to in the article.

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