The Heady, Intricate Beauty of Watching Whiskey Evaporate

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When American whiskey evaporates, it leaves behind webs, or fingerprints of sorts, that could help sleuths identify counterfeit swill. The beauty of this work, says physicist Peter Yunker of the Georgia Institute of Technology, is that it both visualizes the whiskey web phenomenon and describes why the phenomenon happens.

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College of Sciences

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Student and Faculty, Research, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Physics and Physical Sciences
Keywords
whiskey, chemistry, chemical reaction, physics
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  • Created By: kpietkiewicz3
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Mar 31, 2020 - 11:42am
  • Last Updated: Mar 31, 2020 - 11:42am