Weird Water Experiment!

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This is a really crazy experiment you can do at home. See if you can figure out this water mystery!

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[Omid Chini Foroushan]

the water evaporates so quickly it does not have time to escape through the layers of water above it, hence a cushion of vapor is created beneath the water protecting the rest of the water to touch the pan, and since air is a much much worse conductor of heat than metal, the water will continue to stay in liquid form, and that is why it seems to "run" all over the place, it is like a hovercraft, facing almost no resistance for movement.

[Electro1313]

Oh my god, intelligent people still exsist on the internet? Respect man! :D

[firetruckonfire1]

Its the leidenfrost effect (i think thats how you spell it)! Cool.

[lotmom]

If i am correct, this is called the liedenfrost effect

[boraboy4ever]

Because of the amount of heat there is an air cushion. Just look at underwater lava flows.

[Tobe Obi]

I expected an explanation

[waimel08]

That's called Leidenfrost effect

[siteml]

Well, if it consoles you any, this is more physics than chemistry. If you read Omid Chini Foroushan's explanation that should become a little more clear to you. You weren't learning physics, the study of how physical matter and energy behaves, but chemistry, which is learning properties of matter and interaction between different molecules. Even with an A in chem I couldn't hold it against you to not know a physics factoid. The science fields are slowly converging, but they are not there yet.

[warmooze]

I say, being impressed by a scientific observation and feeling compelled to find an explanation for such is most defininitely not caused by an inadequacy of your educational programme. If it's your wish to establish a connection between school and personal interest one might even say it's rather correlated to quite the opposite.

If my use of the English language doesn't suffice your expectations then I'd like to send you my deepest apologies, for I'm but a Germanman.

[SergeantExtreme]

I agree with Kresimir Cindric. I feel the education system has let me down in more than one way. I got an A in chemistry. I never learned about this. And that's just one tiny little thing. Now in the real world trying to go to college, I feel that our education system is indeed one of the most shoddy systems on the entire planet (obviously not proven, just my opinion from personal experience)

Betrayed by the state, I didn't get a good education. Just good grades that = pay raises for teachers

[LILCARMEN25]

im guessing you've never cooked before

[LILCARMEN25]

really well this was fuckin dumb i already knew this i thought it would be alot cooler