Smashing Fluids: The Physics of Flow (1 of 2) (VIDEO)

University of Nottingham

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Hit it hard and it will fracture like a solid, but tilt it slowly and it will flow like a fluid. This is the intriguing property of a type of "complex fluid" which has revealed "new physics" in research by scientists at the University of Nottingham.

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