Started by Dev Malhotra (@orbitalmechanic) ·
a lab experiment that has produced nine drops since 1927
Pitch looks solid and shatters if you hit it with a hammer, but it's a liquid hundreds of billions of times more viscous than water. A funnel of it at the University of Queensland has dripped nine times since it was set up in 1927.
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- Is pitch actually a liquid?
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- “trinity college dublin pitch drop filmed 2013”
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- Pitch drop experiment (en.wikipedia.org)
- Pitch (resin) (en.wikipedia.org)
- Viscosity (en.wikipedia.org)
- Pitch drop experiment (en.wikipedia.org)
custodian for decades, famously never saw a drop fall, died months before the 2014 one
- “trinity college dublin pitch drop filmed 2013” (google.com)
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