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Sunday, April 03, 2005
Splashing drops: When a drop of liquid strikes a surface, the splash it makes normally raises a tiara-like crown of droplets. It has now come to light that if you remove the surrounding atmosphere, the drop just spreads flat without a splash. Check out the two videos on this site. It looks lovely! -K posted by Kaushik at 2:25 PM Comment (2)  
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Not very intuitive to me either, but I don't think it would be flatter under higher pressure. Pressure at a particular point acts from all directions, so there's no reason it should have flattened. Higher gravity, yes.
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