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  2. Leidenfrost effect - Wikipedia

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    Leidenfrost droplet Demonstration of the Leidenfrost effect Leidenfrost effect of a single drop of water. The Leidenfrost effect is a physical phenomenon in which a liquid, close to a solid surface of another body that is significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer that keeps the liquid from boiling rapidly.

  3. Liquid nitrogen - Wikipedia

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    Liquid nitrogen's efficiency as a coolant is limited by the fact that it boils immediately on contact with a warmer object, enveloping the object in an insulating layer of nitrogen gas bubbles. This effect, known as the Leidenfrost effect, occurs when any liquid comes in contact with a surface which is significantly hotter than its boiling point.

  4. Nucleate boiling - Wikipedia

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    At extremes, film boiling commonly known as the Leidenfrost effect is observed. Boiling curve for water at 1atm. The process of forming steam bubbles within liquid in micro cavities adjacent to the wall if the wall temperature at the heat transfer surface rises above the saturation temperature while the bulk of the liquid (heat exchanger) is ...

  5. Surface energy - Wikipedia

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    The surface energy of a liquid may be measured by stretching a liquid membrane (which increases the surface area and hence the surface energy). In that case, in order to increase the surface area of a mass of liquid by an amount, δA, a quantity of work, γ δA, is needed (where γ is the surface energy density of the liquid).

  6. Heat transfer - Wikipedia

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    The Leidenfrost Effect demonstrates how nucleate boiling slows heat transfer due to gas bubbles on the heater's surface. As mentioned, gas-phase thermal conductivity is much lower than liquid-phase thermal conductivity, so the outcome is a kind of "gas thermal barrier ".

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  8. Self-propulsion - Wikipedia

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    Various mechanisms of self-propelling have been introduced and investigated, which exploited phoretic effects, [9] gradient surfaces, breaking the wetting symmetry of a droplet on a surface, [10] [11] the Leidenfrost effect, [12] [13] [14] the self-generated hydrodynamic and chemical fields originating from the geometrical confinements, [15 ...

  9. Biden eulogizes Carter as a 'practitioner of good works' - AOL

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    In a statement after Carter’s death, Biden described him as “a man of great character and courage, hope and optimism.” “With his compassion and moral clarity, he worked to eradicate ...