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A soap boat trip on ‘Lake Marangoni’

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Omar Matar explains how changes in surface tension can cause fluid flow, while navigating a sea of related dimensionless numbers.

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Matar, O.K. A soap boat trip on ‘Lake Marangoni’. Nat Chem Eng 1, 190 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44286-023-00028-8

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