Thursday, October 03, 2013

Water droplets make their OWN way through a metal maze

This is because of something known as the 'Leidenfrost Effect'

The skittering and fizzing that takes place happens because the surface is super-hot- about twice as hot as the liquid's boiling point.

This causes the water to levitate on the evaporated gas vapour which acts a barrier that keeps the droplet and the hot surface separated.