{"id":2495,"date":"2009-05-15T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2009-05-15T04:00:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T09:00:50","slug":"aka-the-big-captain-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2495","title":{"rendered":"aka The Big Captain Crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But Rich Hall snigletified this first:  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cheerio_effect\">The Cheerio Effect<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In fluid mechanics, the cheerio effect is the tendency for small wettable floating objects to attract one another.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon of molecules clumping applies to any (macroscopic) object that floats or clings to the surface of a liquid. This can include a multitude of things, including hair particles in shaving cream and fizzy beer bubbles. The effect is not noticeable in boats and other large floating objects since the force of surface tension is relatively small.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All is not well in Cheerio-land, however.  <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/afp\/Popular_cereal_is_a_drug_US_food_wa_05122009.html\">Cheerios might be considered a drug<\/a>, in a daft legalistic way similar to how <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nix_v._Hedden\">tomatoes are a vegetable<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Rich Hall snigletified this first: The Cheerio Effect In fluid mechanics, the cheerio effect is the tendency for small wettable floating objects to attract one another. [\u2026] The phenomenon of molecules clumping applies to any (macroscopic) object that floats &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2495\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}