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Viscosities.gif

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Original – Viscosity demonstration. The fluid on the left has a lower viscosity than the fluid on the right.
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(nominating on behalf of
Synapticrelay, for creating and uploading this amazing picture. Footlessmouse (talk) 00:58, 17 November 2020 (UTC)[reply
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Viscosity
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Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Others
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Synapticrelay
I think it's good as-is, since the higher resolution would also cause issues with rendering gifs. maybe a high-resolution video for those that prefer that? But that confirms the physics, so that's good.
FPs 11:00, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply
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@Charlesjsharp: Hi! I believe you may have misunderstood the caption: the fluid with the higher viscosity, the orange fluid on the right, flows slower than the other. Viscosity is a continuum: the viscosity of water is (in terms of dynamic viscosity at NTP) on order of 10-3 Pa*s while the viscosity of corn syrup is on order of 100 Pa*s. (Going out further, the viscosity of most glasses are of order 1018+ Pa*s) So the animation is basically just an illustration of the difference in fluid flow for two liquids with viscosities differing by about four orders of magnitude. We can reword the caption if you believe it is confusing. Please let me know if you have any questions or if I have misinterpreted your comment. I hope this helps. Footlessmouse (talk) 07:08, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Fine if you specify the relative viscosity Charlesjsharp (talk) 12:02, 23 November 2020 (UTC) (CEng FIMechE)[reply]

Promoted File:Viscosities.gif --Armbrust The Homunculus 07:14, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]