Fluid fractures like a solid (IMAGE)

Swansea University

Fluid fractures like a solid

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Three consecutive frames from the high-speed camera as air is forced into the corn starch suspension. Abrupt shear thickening makes it fracture like a solid. The suspension "melts" back to a liquid once the fracture front has passed.

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IMPACT, Swansea University

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