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Sticky Science: The Force Be With You with Laurie Winkless
StarTalk Radio
The Hydrophobic Coating of a Boat
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The leaf traps a layer of air in its hairs, and because water is pinned on to the top of each one of those hairs, the air can get out. So you have this permanent layer of air that the leaf has around itself. You're really explaining kind of a microscopic hydrophoil. And there are some boats that have these. They produce bubbles, like tis,. An actual system that spirts out bubbles around the edge of a boat to try and reduce in a similar way. But it's just not as stable as a something that would be, yo, a solid layer of air. Larry, i thought i remembered a teat was at a t v commercial
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