Stream Of Sand Behaves Like Water
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 15:35
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers recently showed that dry granular materials such as sands, seeds and grains have properties similar to liquid, forming water-like droplets when poured from a given source. The finding could be important to a wide range of industries that use "fluidized" dry particles for oil refining, plastics manufacturing and pharmaceutical production.
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