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Bang But No Splash
BishopBerkeley writes "When a drop of ethanol is dropped on a surface at low pressures (1/5 atmosphere or less), it makes no splash. Science offers a brief synopsis and fascinating pictures of the phenomenon. The results seem to confirm the (perhaps counterintuitive) prediction that more viscous liquids are more likely to splash, not less likely . Links to the researchers' home page at U of Chicago (as of now, the site is timing out) and pdf version of the article on arxiv can be found on the Science page also."
Uh oh. Someone left some ethanol next to bored scientists again.
People like my friends know the right thing to do, but it appears that this knowledge is not common enough.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Good job too. Imagine leaving that into the chemist to get developed. "Just the the one set of my 47,000 prints please". And then you get them all back with a 'photography tips' sticker on as you had your thumb over the lens.
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Full Text : Cho,Sucking Away the Splatter,
With a title like that, you would think it's "adult" content they're charging for...
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
Science at its best. Their explanation passes the three fingers rule. If a complicated subject can be distilled into a written answer that makes sense and can be covered with three fingers, that is elegance. However, don't be confused with answers that makes sense after ingesting three fingers of straight ethanol......
Yes, but they only decided to proceed on the nuclear bombs when they realized dropping intermittent wipers on the Japanese would not end the war.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
Yes, but immagine the Japanese's horror if they did drop intermittent wipers all over them!
They'd think we'd wipe them out.
-- Robi