Science News for Kids » University of Melbourne http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org Publication of the Society for Science & the Public Sun, 19 May 2013 15:00:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Tiny bubbles, be gone http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/10/tiny-bubbles-be-gone/ http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/10/tiny-bubbles-be-gone/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:43:07 +0000 Stephen Ornes http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/?p=14301 Both of these steel balls are superheated to 400 degrees Celsius (750 degrees Fahrenheit). But the one on the left has been treated with chemicals that repel water, and as a result it doesn’t produce the explosion of tiny bubbles that precede a boil, as seen on the right. Credit: Ivan Vakarelski

The right surface can determine how water boils]]> Both of these steel balls are superheated to 400 degrees Celsius (750 degrees Fahrenheit). But the one on the left has been treated with chemicals that repel water, and as a result it doesn’t produce the explosion of tiny bubbles that precede a boil, as seen on the right. Credit: Ivan Vakarelski

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