Drishtikone
Water is the most abundant of substances on earth and the most vital. it can form and destroy life. Yet it has puzzled the scientists! Beyond its basic form of H2O, scientists have not been able to decipher why it would behave in various ways that it does. Here is another discovery! When water in two beakers is subjected to a high dc electrical field.. it seems to come out of the beakers and form a bride between the two beakers! The act seems to defy gravity. Upon investigating the phenomenon, the scientists found that water was being transported from one beaker to another, usually from the anode beaker to the cathode beaker. The cylindrical water bridge, with a diameter of 1-3 mm, could remain intact when the beakers were pulled apart at a distance of up to 25 mm. To start with the electrostatic charges form the bridge. But them somehow the electric field goes "inside" the water and helps steady the bridge! The scientists surmise that a highly ordered microstructure is formed within the water that results in keeping the bridge together! And that is not all - there are oscillations happening inside water Read more
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