saludal convection
grrlscientist | February 12, 2008tags: Egg in a bottle, air pressure, streaming video
I was reading the New Scientist book last night, called How to Fossilize Your Hamster and this was one of the very experiments I read about, while wishing I was in a pub instead of my bed (although I would instead be making Tia Maria and cream disappear instead, snert) And heyyyy, doesn't that cream formation look like Jesus Christ? [3:48]
The explanation for this weird phenomenon is "saludal convection" where liquids of two densities mix together. If I am not mistaken, this experiment is even more interesting if you use Kahlua instread of…