Even Chemists Are Baffled by This GIF of a Droplet Spiraling to Its Doom0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 19, 2018
A single drop of solvent swirls like a tiny dancer atop a beaker of water, gradually jettisoning away little round bits of itself until nothing remains. Some who saw it thought it looked like a spinning galaxy, or the world’s tiniest hurricane. All who saw it wondered what the heck was going on — and that includes the researchers who conducted the experiment in 2011.
