Streaming sand grains help define essence of a liquid
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 12:07
in Physics & Chemistry
Water forms droplets because attractive interactions between molecules produce surface tension. If macroscopic objects - say, grains of sand - replace the molecules, the relative strength of this attraction would dramatically drop. What vestiges of liquid behaviour remain in such ultra-low surface tension limit?...
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