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Marble and Sand Creates a New State of Matter

Posted by samzenpus on from the mr.fusion dept.

An anonymous reader writes "LiveScience has a story about a surprisingly simple experiment (yes, you can try this at home) at room temperature that yielded a jet of sand that behaves similar to jets created in ultra-dense gas near absolute zero. From the article: 'We're discovering a new type of fluid state that seems to exist in this combination of gas--air in this case--and a dense arrangement of particles.'"

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  1. Mmm... Mand... by Aquatopia17 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll get it out of the way and declare this new state of matter Mand! Because Sarble would just be stupid sounding. Really.

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