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Blocks of Ice Demonstrate Levitated and Directed Motion
Description: Resembling the Leidenfrost effect seen in rapidly boiling water droplets, a disk of ice becomes highly mobile due to a levitating layer of water between it and the smooth surface on which it rests and melts. The otherwise random rotation and translation (sliding) of the ice block can be directed by controlling the flow dynamics of the melted ice-turned-water close to the disk surface. [Source: American Institute of Physics (AIP) Newsroom on Newswise]
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Source: American Institute of Physics (AIP) Newsroom on Newswise
Publish Date: 12/7/2016
Reading Level: Basic
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