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[Sci-Am] The Mystery of Water Drops That Skate Across Oil at Impossible Speeds

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2021-10-09, 11:26

The Mystery of Water Drops That Skate Across Oil at Impossible Speeds

The speed of these self-propelling droplets on a hot-oil surface seemed to defy physics until researchers broke out the super-slow-motion camera.

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