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May The Force (of Mayonnaise) Be With You!
Roland Piquepaille writes "A team of chemists at Rice University was working last year on two separate projects: trying to create strong fibers from carbon nanotubes, and testing emulsions of oil and water. And they discovered that a force known as 'negative first normal stress difference' was present in both solutions. The next step was to go to a grocery store and buy a more common emulsion, namely a jar of mayonnaise. And bingo! This force was also at work. They tell us more in this news release, "Bizarre Attractive Force Found in Mayonnaise." Unfortunately, they don't know what to do from their findings. Still, it's fun science. More details and references are available in this overview."
No wonder I'm addicted to Mayo! It's that hitherto unknown attractive force that compelled me to eat jar after jar.
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There's a whole bunch of other foodstuffs you can test for this phenomenon: peanut butter, egg yolks and/or whites, gravy... hmmmm.. gravy. argl-argl-argl....
click-clack, front and back. I'm not moving this car otherwise.
"Mayo the force be with you?"
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Yeah... I can't afford a real bulletproof vest made out of Kevlar, so I'm just going to smear Mayo over myself.
Yeah, like I need an excuse to do that anyway!
My own prize-worthy contribution to human knowledge
will describe the mysterious repulsive force which
can be confirmed to emanate from the accumulation
of emulsion lipids in adipose tissue of the consumer.
I've passed on blind dates for fear of this "dark matter".
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
They don't really mix, as they aren't soluble into each other. You add another substance to get an emulsion - it adsorbs on the interface and 'breaks' it, so you get droplets.