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These Liquids Look Alive!

2016-03-15

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Why do droplets of food coloring attract, repel, and chase each other?

Snatoms molecular models: http://igg.me/at/snatoms

More about this topic: http://wke.lt/w/s/VRjRQ

Original paper on droplets: http://stanford.edu/~manup/docs/Cira_DancingDroplets.pdf

Marangoni Flow: http://web.mit.edu/2.21/www/Lec-notes/Surfacetension/Lecture4.pdf

Surface Energy: https://itf.fys.kuleuven.be/~joi/papers/Wetting%20and%20spreading.pdf

Filming and master pipetting by Raquel Nuno

Research and writing by Aaron White