Viscous Cycle (IMAGE)

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Viscous Cycle

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A normally freely fluid liquid (yellow) turns into a liquid the thickness of cold honey after it binds carbon dioxide (red). Modifying its chemical structure frees it up into a noncharged, thin liquid again (blue).

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