Schematic Picture of Molecular Motion (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

Schematic Picture of Molecular Motion

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In the experiments, a steel ball slides over the ice surface which consists of rapidly tumbling mobile water molecules that are only loosely bounded to the underlying ice.

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Nagata/MPI-P

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