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A new paper published in Physical Review Letters explains how a water jet breaks up into unstoppable droplets. Physicists found that the disturbances that trigger the breakup of ‘laminar jets’ (or arc-shaped stream of liquids) into droplets, is not caused by external noise or dysfunctional nozzles but by “thermal capillary waves”.
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