Thu 20 Nov 2008
Surface tension wins – Water balloons in space
Posted by sciencegeekgirl under Weird Science TricksNo Comments
Here’s a great video of what happens when you pop a water balloon in space.
This is a nice clear lesson about surface tension and the war between different forces. When you take away gravity, then surface tension is able to hold together a much larger blob of water. It no longer has gravity trying to pull the water blob apart and then air drag breaking it up into droplets.
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