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Friday, January 14, 2011

A Water Droplet Skitters In A Super-Hot Pan

It's called the Leidenfrost effect, and you've seen it before: dribble a little water onto the surface of a hot, dry pan, and the water forms little drops that skate around until they fizzle out. But have you seen it filmed close-up at 3,000 frames per second?



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(via Popular Science)

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