{"id":8847,"date":"2011-06-02T03:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8847"},"modified":"2011-06-02T03:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T08:00:23","slug":"great-balls-o-leidenfrost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8847","title":{"rendered":"Great Balls o&#039; Leidenfrost!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thephotonist.net\/2011\/05\/hot-bodies-have-less-drag\/\">Hot bodies have less drag<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[R]esearchers have shown the Leidenfrost effect works very well in reverse. They dropped metal balls heated to different temperatures into a liquid and watched how fast they fell. The chose a room temperature ball, a heated ball that wasn\u2019t enough to make the Leidenfrost effect occur, and a ball heated above the Leidenfrost temperature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moving through water vapor is easier than through liquid.  There should be some speed where you can&#8217;t boil the water quickly enough, though, and you get a transition of the effect in the right-hand tube to that of the middle tube, or something similar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JenLucPiquant\/status\/75768038124822528\">h\/t to @JenLucPiquant<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot bodies have less drag [R]esearchers have shown the Leidenfrost effect works very well in reverse. They dropped metal balls heated to different temperatures into a liquid and watched how fast they fell. The chose a room temperature ball, a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8847\">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-8847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847","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=8847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}