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| Making water flow uphill |
| 6:43:23 am mst / 29 January 2001 found by paul / filed in science / source Science Daily 107 hits / 2 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Lehigh professor Manoj Chaudhury has found a way to manipulate surface tension gradients to induce water droplets to flow uphill at speeds of up to 1 meter per second. His work may have applications in fluid transport systems for zero-gravity environments as well as microfluidic devices. |
| Or model T-1000 "liquid metal" Terminators... |
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| About 1/1000 as fast actually by MysteriousStranger 3:10:04 pm mst / 29 January 2001 / # 1 |
| Chaudhury said he had coaxed a microliter of water to "run uphill" on a surface of polished silicon at about 1 mm per second
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| Keep reading... by paul 3:40:55 pm mst / 29 January 2001 / # 2 / reply to # 1 |
| The first paragraph describes how in 1992 he achieved 1 mm/sec. But later in the article, it describes how he was able to speed it up to over 1 meter/sec. |
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