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Puzzle of leaping liquid solved

Physicists explain how shampoo streams can bounce.

Dutch researchers believe they have cracked the physics behind a mysterious bouncing behaviour of liquids, first seen more than 40 years ago.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on April 07, 2006
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Would a hologram leap along with the laser beam within the liquid? Thanks.

Posted by: Renay Oshop | April 8, 2006 02:09 AM

Two potential uses:
1. if can be stabilized over long time, it can enable micromixing of incoming fluid into the pool; use would be in manufacture of drugs, etc.
2. the phenomenon can be used as a rapid test of rheological properties;

Posted by: Harry Shamir | April 11, 2006 02:28 PM

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