Burgeroids (IMAGE)
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As a water drop falls, air pressure flattens the bottom of it and shapes it like a burger. Simulations based on the so-called burgeroids, rather than on spherical drops of water, allowed the researchers to replicate a wide range of rainbows found in nature.
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UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
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