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String of Glass Beads

I quite like how the drop is squished vertically and the "string" that it came from consists of a series of little drops in the making.

 

Posted in the Physics group as an example of surface tension and, to a lesser degree, the Plateau-Rayleigh instability principle.

 

Highest explore position: 135

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Uploaded on August 2, 2006
Taken on July 27, 2006