Bang But No Splash

Posted by Hemos on Friday March 25, 2005 @12:34AM from the scientific-progress-goes-spash dept.

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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Argh ! by s3pHiRoTh · 2005-03-25 00:51 · Score: 0, Redundant

When pointing out links that require subscription they shouldn't forget to mention it !
Re:looking at the pix by cheese_wallet · 2005-03-25 05:40 · Score: 0, Redundant

But the experiment was done at low pressure, which would minimize that effect.

Right. Which is why they didn't splash at low pressure.