5 Strangest Materials

MattSparkes writes to tell us that NewScientist recently posted a quick look at five interesting materials with some very strange properties. There are liquids you can walk on, liquids that will escape containers by creeping up the sides, and magnetic liquids that can easily show you the shape of magnetic fields. The story also offers video links to display some of more amazing properties described.

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Water comes to mind

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Now I haven't RTFA yet, but going off just the blurb:

There are liquids you can walk on, liquids that will escape containers by creeping up the sides, and magnetic liquids that can easily show you the shape of magnetic fields.

Funny, how water can be made to do those.

• Liquids you can walk on: Plenty of small creatures walk on water as a liquid, and so could a human with the right pair of shoes, or moving fast enough.
  
• liquids that will escape containers by creeping up the sides: Put a straw in a glass of water, and the water will be higher in the straw. Do it with a smaller/thinner tube.
  
• magnetic liquids that can easily show you the shape of magnetic fields: again you can do this with putting things in the water.