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Fluid dynamics: Many microbes make a superfluid.

Source :
Nature. 7/16/2015, Vol. 523 Issue 7560, p258-258. 1p.
Publication Year :
2015

Abstract

The article focuses on a paper published in a 2015 issue of "Physical Review Letters" which found that the viscosity of normal liquid solutions could be altered by varying Escherichia coli concentrations and that when around six billion bacteria were in the suspension spinning in a rheometer, the fluid became a superfluid.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00280836
Volume :
523
Issue :
7560
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Nature
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
108392334
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/523258b