Surface tension is nifty

Mar 10, 2023 5:33 AM

RustedFriend

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Noticed this drip today while I was getting gas.

Zoomed in and slowed down. I love how the droplets bounce along the surface before they overcome the surface tension.

Beautiful & well spotted!

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Little stuff like this is so cool

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It's the little things

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I thought this was inside a shitty underfunded school. Glad it's not for once, lol.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've seen these before but always thought it was bubbles. Very cool!

3 years ago | Likes 218 Dislikes 0

They are reverse bubbles.

3 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

elbbubs

3 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Plot twist: it’s gasoline not water ?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This happens a lot when I pee at the perfect angle into the short urinal.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Literally

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sometimes you gotta just slow down and appreciate the decaying infrastructure around you. :(

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Slick.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is actually not caused by surface tension, but rather by air being trapped between the droplets and the water surface

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??

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^

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Neat! source: Steven Trainoff Noah Philips Jun 7 2009 https://youtu.be/pbGz1njqhxU

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's a layer of air that needs to move out of the way before the droplet can make direct contact and be absorbed

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Awesome +1

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There is beauty all around us

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Push the button. DO IT O_O

3 years ago | Likes 136 Dislikes 0

I did not need to be serviced at this time.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's like a lottery, will you get service or electrocuted, so exciting

3 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

FOR SERVICE

3 years ago | Likes 47 Dislikes 0

Paige, no

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Hate to burst your bubble, but those boxes are all low voltage and made to work in conditions like this.

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Well, it can't hurt to try then!

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh yeah? Well you know what I think?

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I hate to burst YOUR bubble but this was a joke. The facetious nature of my comment must've been too low to encite feelings of joy in you.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If its raining while you're out on a lake in a boat or something you can see this happen there too. Its pretty cool.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Slow Mo really sold this

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Push for surface tension

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Or maybe service tension

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You're a very special sort of person to look at the world this way and take the time to record it. Everybody can but few people ever do

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Gracias. I'm a science educator and also generally try to inject more wonder (or bafflement) into the world. I play by fey rules often.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Maverik?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Indeed

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Now that’s what my phone has six camera lenses for.

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must be a soviet russian bubble.

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M̵͔̂O̵̪̱̍͒Î̵̗̬͛S̷̺̚T̶͎̎

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Maybe refrain from pushing the button

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

What camera type were you using?

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Just my phone. It's a OnePlus 8t.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Cool! I watched them do the thing!

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I first read "them" as referring to me. Like you were at the gas pump next to me watching me film this. Haha.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Haha nope! The droplets slowly getting smaller as they bounce was so cool, was the ‘them’

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That's really poetic.

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Chicago CTA?

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Salt Lake City, Utah. At a Maverick gas station.

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Makes me think of a dripping ceiling I saw on a train platform in Japan:

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Damn!

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I like how official the drip bottle is with its stripy tape.

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I've seen super crazy surface tension when feeding cell cultures.

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Nice

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