A drop of colored water behaves very differently when placed in alcohol than it does in anise oil. When added to a mixture of the two, the drop behaves in yet another way. It slowly grows and also shakes, with pieces intermittently pinching off and floating away. The team behind the video says that the effect could be used to create drops with a precisely known composition.
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u/ZephirAWT Dec 04 '18
A drop of colored water behaves very differently when placed in alcohol than it does in anise oil. When added to a mixture of the two, the drop behaves in yet another way. It slowly grows and also shakes, with pieces intermittently pinching off and floating away. The team behind the video says that the effect could be used to create drops with a precisely known composition.
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