Well known and understood related phenomena

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Zephir

20th July 2007 - 03:55 PM

http://www.physorg.com/news103901897.html

..is so called Gauss-Marangoni instability and tears of wine effect. It was explained in 1855 already by brother of lord Kelvin and currently is used for cleaning of silicone wafers.

See the [Carlo Marangoni, "On the expansion of a drop of liquid floating in the surface of another liquid" (1865).]

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