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Leidenfrost Collapse

When a droplet encounters a surface much hotter than its boiling point, it forms a thin layer of vapor that insulates the liquid from the surface. But this Leidenfrost effect can't last forever. (Image credit: L. Gledhill; research credit: D. Harvey and J. Burton) Read the full article

🍛 🍲 Curry Stimboard! 🍲 🍛

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[Image description: a 9 gif stimboard; from left to right.

First line: a gif of someone using a ladle to stir lentil curry and drip it back into the pot, a gif panning around a shallow bowl of green Thai curry, and a gif of fish curry bubbling and steaming in a pan.

Second line: a gif of someone scooping butter chicken curry into a bowl with rice and then jumpcutting to them drizzling on yogurt and adding some naan to the bowl, a gif of someone scooping up rice and Korean curry with a fork, and a gif of someone pressing cut spinach into a pan with their hand and then jumpcutting to the spinach having been cooked down into the pan of chicken coconut curry.

Third line: a gif of someone spinning a metal dish with shahi paneer curry inside, a gif of someone using half a chapati to scoop up some lamb curry from a bowl, and a gif of a red Thai curry being stirred with a ladle.

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I needed to boil about a tablespoons worth of water. Instead of using a pot, I poured it on to the cutting board and put that on the stove burner. And it worked.

Vaporization

Also spelled vaporisation, vaporization is the phase transformation from a liquid to a gas. Generally speaking, vaporization has two different forms: evaporation and boiling.

Evaporation takes place at the surface of a liquid at temperatures (and pressures) lower than required for the boiling point of a liquid. Evaporation can technically take place at any temperature/pressure, so long as individual molecules or atoms of the substance at the surface are high enough in energy to escape, though the rate of evaporation is dependent on temperature/pressure.

Boiling is a bulk phase transformation that occurs throughout a liquid at set temperatures/pressures, often involving the formation of bubbles of the new gas phase within the liquid phase.

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[Image ID: Far left, first GIF. Water gets poured on top of sugar and corn syrup in a small, silver pot. Then we see the melted mixture bubble boiling. Middle, second GIF. The mixture has foamed up into an off-white or cream color and is being stirred with a spatula to encourage fluffing up. Far right, third GIF. A batch of caramel brown, fully-fluffed honeycomb candy is dumped out onto another surface to bubble, steam, and spread out for cooling. End ID.]

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the difference between boiling point and the bear is that in the bear things get a little better and in the boiling point it’s always worse

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Laura Jane Grace // "Day Old Coffee," from At War with the Silverfish

Day-old coffee, microwaved to boiling; Pour it on my eyeballs, and boil my dumbshit brains out...

'Cause I don’t ever want to hear or think or speak again; I don’t ever want to hear or think or speak again.

What’s with all the questions? To whom do I owe the pleasure? To whom do I owe the obligation?

And if I lose the thread, put it down and come back again.

Turkish Coffee Stimboard

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[Image description: a 9 gif stimboard; from left to right.

First line: a gif of a cezve (a small metal coffee pot) over a stovetop with the coffee inside bubbling up and emitting steam, a gif of someone swirling three cezves in hot sand with the coffee bubbling and boiling inside, and a gif of someone tipping spoonfuls of coffee powder into a cezve containing boiling water.

Second line: a gif of someone removing a cezve from hot sand and pouring the coffee inside into porcelain teacups set out in a ring around the sand, a close-up gif of the base of a cezve swirling in sand, and a gif of someone moving two cezves in the sand which then jump cuts to them pouring the coffee into a porcelian teacup.

Third line: a gif of a cezve on a stove top, the coffee inside bubbling up rapidly towards the rim of the pot, a gif of a cevze being swirled back and forth in the sand while the coffee bubbles fast inside, and a gif of someone slowly swirling a cezve in sand to boil the coffee inside.

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A bit from Kingdoms Fall:

Darkness spread like smoke through the air. Boots stamped on the stone floor and men shouted at each other in a panic. Stiles slammed back into a wall.

Gold eyes glared into his from the dark. Someone screamed.

Soft golden light broke him from the vision and he gasped.

“Stiles?” Lydia’s voice was low.

He cupped his hands around the light, drawing it closer and letting it warm his chilled fingers. “Here,” he managed.

“What’s wrong?” The golden light intensified.

He dropped the shirt he was holding and released the light so he could press his hands into his eyes. “One moment.” He took a couple of breaths and swore he could feel claws in his throat. “I Saw something.”

She was quiet. “Open the doors, I’m coming.”

“No, don’t. I’m fine.”

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Engineered surface helps boiled bubbles jump to carry more heat

Water is often the go-to resource for heat transfer, being used in large-scale cooling operations like data centers that power the internet and nuclear power plants that power cities. Discovering dynamic phenomena to make water-based heat transfer more energy and cost-efficient is the ongoing work of Jonathan Boreyko, associate professor and John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow in mechanical engineering. Boreyko and his team have published extensively on the topic of water and the way it can move, with members of his Nature-Inspired Fluids and Interfaces Lab producing water droplets that leap propelled by surface tension and frost that jumps by way of electrostatics. Having incorporated the two phases of liquid and solid in the first two volumes, their third volume investigates a third phase with boiling water. "During my Ph.D. research at Duke University, I discovered jumping water droplets," said Boreyko. "A decade later, my own graduate student discovered jumping ice during his research on frost growth. This made me determined to complete a three-phase 'trilogy' for jumping water, which we achieved here with this paper on jumping bubbles during the boiling of water. When Hyunggon showed me the first videos of these jumping bubbles that complete the trilogy, needless to say, I was jumping with excitement."

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