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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."
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Maybe it's just cheaper in the long run to buy a vaccuum-insulated stainless steel tank than it is to deal with bulky, deteriorating insulating products. I'll bet that the annular space and the ullage is also purged with nitrogen, if not being an actual vaccuum space.
Liquid oxygen, liquid nitrogen and liquid hydrogen is transported this way. You probably pass or see some of these tankers on the road every day.
Given no a priori knowledge of this experiment,
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