Candy Forest (VIDEO)

New York University

Caption

This video shows an experiment in which a dissolving block of candy develops into an array of sharp spikes. The block starts out with internal pores and is entirely immersed under water, where it dissolves and becomes a "candy forest" before collapsing.

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NYU's Applied Mathematics Lab

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