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January 18, 2022
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Water droplet levitates in the Leidenfrost state
A water droplet levitates 80 microns above a hot surface heated past water's boiling point in the Leidenfrost state.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant DMR 1455086.]
Learn more in the Emory University news story New method reveals minimum heat for levitating drops. (Date image taken: September 2020; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Jan.18 , 2022)
Credit: Justin Burton, Emory University
Images and other media in the National Science Foundation Multimedia Gallery are available for use in print and electronic material by NSF employees, members of the media, university staff, teachers and the general public. All media in the gallery are intended for personal, educational and nonprofit/non-commercial use only.
Images credited to the National Science Foundation, a federal agency, are in the public domain. The images were created by employees of the United States Government as part of their official duties or prepared by contractors as "works for hire" for NSF. You may freely use NSF-credited images and, at your discretion, credit NSF with a "Courtesy: National Science Foundation" notation.
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