Word: ristenpart
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Fluid dynamics researchers Jacy C. Bird and William D. Ristenpart were doing routine experiments on water droplets, when the supposedly predictable outcome failed to materialize. Instead of coalescing as expected, the charged water drops they were testing began repelling each other—a result that seemed to fly in the face of elementary science...
...implications of these findings are being investigated by Ristenpart, one of the original researchers at Harvard who has since become a professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Davis...
...Right now, we’re trying to understand what is going on fundamentally,” said Ristenpart. “This is a very counterintuitive mechanism taking place. There’s other situations as well, like sometimes a smaller daughter droplet is emitted...
...Ristenpart said he believes that the practical applications will extend beyond the petroleum industry...
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