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Thin Water Acts Like a Solid
Roland Piquepaille writes "What happens when you compress water in a nano-sized space? According to Georgia Tech physicists, water starts to behave like a solid. "The confined water film behaves like a solid in the vertical direction by forming layers parallel to the confining surface, while maintaining it's liquidity in the horizontal direction where it can flow out," said one of the researchers. "Water is a wonderful lubricant, but it flows too easily for many applications. At the one nanometer scale, water is a viscous fluid and could be a much better lubricant," added another one."
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must be nice to have english as your first language
the preceding post was not spell checked... suck it.
I guess that's what the plumber downstairs had in mind when trying to unblock a clog with water that shot straight up the common wall pipe and out of my kitchen sink to flood the floor.
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What happens when you compress something? It becomes more dense. As something becomes more dense it starts to approach the solid. Solid is typically more hard. Granted, it may have taken a scientist with resources to figure out what all the properties and reactions were, but as for "Water gets more solid as it is compressed", DUH.
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