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A Frying Pan Filled With a Thin Layer of Egg Whites

Caption: View of a frying pan filled with a thin layer of egg whites. Thermal convection in the fluid competes with coagulation of the egg albumen to create a fingering pattern propagating into the convection cells.

Credit: Peter Vorobieff (kalmoth@unm.edu) Mechanical Engineering, The University of New Mexico Vakhtang Putkaradze (putkarad@gmail.com) Mathematics, Colorado State University

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