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  1. Mirabilite Mounds at Great Salt Lake

    In cold weather, a new geological feature has shown up at Utah’s Great Salt Lake in the last decade. These salty mirabilite mounds form terraced crystals that resemble Yellowstone’s Mammoth Hot Springs.

    Diagram showing how a salt-laden spring pushing upward through the mirabilite layer can then form mounds at the surface when the dissolved mirabilite recrystallizes after the water evaporates.

    Mirabilite is hydrated sodium sulfate (as opposed to the sodium chloride of table salt). The structures form when upwelling spring water partially dissolves the layer of mirabilite found beneath the lake bed. That sulfate-laden water rises to the surface, where it freezes into the crystals seen here.

    A timelapse showing the formation of mirabilite mounds.

    When temperatures rise above freezing, the water in the mirabilite evaporates, leaving behind white, powdery thenardite. (Video credit: Great Salt Lake Institute; image credit: Utah Geological Survey)

    #crystalGrowth #dissolution #evaporation #fluidDynamics #freezing #geophysics #physics #science
  2. Mirabilite Mounds at Great Salt Lake

    In cold weather, a new geological feature has shown up at Utah’s Great Salt Lake in the last decade. These salty mirabilite mounds form terraced crystals that resemble Yellowstone’s Mammoth Hot Springs.

    Diagram showing how a salt-laden spring pushing upward through the mirabilite layer can then form mounds at the surface when the dissolved mirabilite recrystallizes after the water evaporates.

    Mirabilite is hydrated sodium sulfate (as opposed to the sodium chloride of table salt). The structures form when upwelling spring water partially dissolves the layer of mirabilite found beneath the lake bed. That sulfate-laden water rises to the surface, where it freezes into the crystals seen here.

    A timelapse showing the formation of mirabilite mounds.

    When temperatures rise above freezing, the water in the mirabilite evaporates, leaving behind white, powdery thenardite. (Video credit: Great Salt Lake Institute; image credit: Utah Geological Survey)

    #crystalGrowth #dissolution #evaporation #fluidDynamics #freezing #geophysics #physics #science
  3. Mirabilite Mounds at Great Salt Lake

    In cold weather, a new geological feature has shown up at Utah’s Great Salt Lake in the last decade. These salty mirabilite mounds form terraced crystals that resemble Yellowstone’s Mammoth Hot Springs.

    Diagram showing how a salt-laden spring pushing upward through the mirabilite layer can then form mounds at the surface when the dissolved mirabilite recrystallizes after the water evaporates.

    Mirabilite is hydrated sodium sulfate (as opposed to the sodium chloride of table salt). The structures form when upwelling spring water partially dissolves the layer of mirabilite found beneath the lake bed. That sulfate-laden water rises to the surface, where it freezes into the crystals seen here.

    A timelapse showing the formation of mirabilite mounds.

    When temperatures rise above freezing, the water in the mirabilite evaporates, leaving behind white, powdery thenardite. (Video credit: Great Salt Lake Institute; image credit: Utah Geological Survey)

    #crystalGrowth #dissolution #evaporation #fluidDynamics #freezing #geophysics #physics #science
  4. Mirabilite Mounds at Great Salt Lake

    In cold weather, a new geological feature has shown up at Utah’s Great Salt Lake in the last decade. These salty mirabilite mounds form terraced crystals that resemble Yellowstone’s Mammoth Hot Springs.

    Diagram showing how a salt-laden spring pushing upward through the mirabilite layer can then form mounds at the surface when the dissolved mirabilite recrystallizes after the water evaporates.

    Mirabilite is hydrated sodium sulfate (as opposed to the sodium chloride of table salt). The structures form when upwelling spring water partially dissolves the layer of mirabilite found beneath the lake bed. That sulfate-laden water rises to the surface, where it freezes into the crystals seen here.

    A timelapse showing the formation of mirabilite mounds.

    When temperatures rise above freezing, the water in the mirabilite evaporates, leaving behind white, powdery thenardite. (Video credit: Great Salt Lake Institute; image credit: Utah Geological Survey)

    #crystalGrowth #dissolution #evaporation #fluidDynamics #freezing #geophysics #physics #science
  5. Mirabilite Mounds at Great Salt Lake

    In cold weather, a new geological feature has shown up at Utah’s Great Salt Lake in the last decade. These salty mirabilite mounds form terraced crystals that resemble Yellowstone’s Mammoth Hot Springs.

    Diagram showing how a salt-laden spring pushing upward through the mirabilite layer can then form mounds at the surface when the dissolved mirabilite recrystallizes after the water evaporates.

    Mirabilite is hydrated sodium sulfate (as opposed to the sodium chloride of table salt). The structures form when upwelling spring water partially dissolves the layer of mirabilite found beneath the lake bed. That sulfate-laden water rises to the surface, where it freezes into the crystals seen here.

    A timelapse showing the formation of mirabilite mounds.

    When temperatures rise above freezing, the water in the mirabilite evaporates, leaving behind white, powdery thenardite. (Video credit: Great Salt Lake Institute; image credit: Utah Geological Survey)

    #crystalGrowth #dissolution #evaporation #fluidDynamics #freezing #geophysics #physics #science
  6. Droplets in dense sprays live much longer than expected. The surrounding vapor saturates locally, delaying evaporation.

    What controls the system is not the droplet, but the evolving vapor field.

    🔗 journals.aps.org/prfluids/abst

    #PhaseChange #Evaporation #Turbulence #Droplets #Physics

  7. Droplets in dense sprays live much longer than expected. The surrounding vapor saturates locally, delaying evaporation.

    What controls the system is not the droplet, but the evolving vapor field.

    🔗 journals.aps.org/prfluids/abst

    #PhaseChange #Evaporation #Turbulence #Droplets #Physics

  8. Droplets in dense sprays live much longer than expected. The surrounding vapor saturates locally, delaying evaporation.

    What controls the system is not the droplet, but the evolving vapor field.

    🔗 journals.aps.org/prfluids/abst

    #PhaseChange #Evaporation #Turbulence #Droplets #Physics

  9. Droplets in dense sprays live much longer than expected. The surrounding vapor saturates locally, delaying evaporation.

    What controls the system is not the droplet, but the evolving vapor field.

    🔗 journals.aps.org/prfluids/abst

    #PhaseChange #Evaporation #Turbulence #Droplets #Physics

  10. Droplets in dense sprays live much longer than expected. The surrounding vapor saturates locally, delaying evaporation.

    What controls the system is not the droplet, but the evolving vapor field.

    🔗 journals.aps.org/prfluids/abst

    #PhaseChange #Evaporation #Turbulence #Droplets #Physics

  11. Vanishing Spirits: Cognac

    Years ago, photographer Ernie Button discovered an intriguing stain left behind in his whiskey glass after the last drops evaporated. That discovery led both to beautiful images and an entire scientific paper analyzing how the alcohol, surfactants, and polymers in the whiskey combined to leave such a uniform stain. Over the years, Button continued investigating liquor stains, looking at gin, rice whisky, and aging effects. Here, he’s turned his lens to cognac, producing stains that look like oil slicks, aerial landscapes, and even cartoonish faces! (Image and submission credit: E. Button)

    #alcohol #chemistry #evaporation #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #marangoniEffect #physics #science
  12. Vanishing Spirits: Cognac

    Years ago, photographer Ernie Button discovered an intriguing stain left behind in his whiskey glass after the last drops evaporated. That discovery led both to beautiful images and an entire scientific paper analyzing how the alcohol, surfactants, and polymers in the whiskey combined to leave such a uniform stain. Over the years, Button continued investigating liquor stains, looking at gin, rice whisky, and aging effects. Here, he’s turned his lens to cognac, producing stains that look like oil slicks, aerial landscapes, and even cartoonish faces! (Image and submission credit: E. Button)

    #alcohol #chemistry #evaporation #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #marangoniEffect #physics #science
  13. “Crystal Garden – Seasons”

    In this latest project, the Beauty of Science team explores colorful crystallization as chemicals precipitate out of evaporating solutions. The variety of shapes and colors is incredible. To see many more of these crystalline “gardens,” check out the video below and the project’s webpage. (Video and image credit: W. Zhu/Beauty of Science; via Colossal)

    https://vimeo.com/1155318039?fl=pl&fe=cm

    #crystalGrowth #evaporation #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #physics #science #timelapse
  14. “Crystal Garden – Seasons”

    In this latest project, the Beauty of Science team explores colorful crystallization as chemicals precipitate out of evaporating solutions. The variety of shapes and colors is incredible. To see many more of these crystalline “gardens,” check out the video below and the project’s webpage. (Video and image credit: W. Zhu/Beauty of Science; via Colossal)

    https://vimeo.com/1155318039?fl=pl&fe=cm

    #crystalGrowth #evaporation #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #physics #science #timelapse
  15. The Balvenie

    Photographer Ernie Button explores the stains left behind when various liquors evaporate. This one comes from a single malt scotch whisky by The Balvenie. The stain itself is made up of particles left behind when the alcohol and water in the whisky evaporate. The pattern itself depends on a careful interplay between surface tension, evaporation, pinning forces, and internal convection as the whisky puddle dries out. (Image credit: E. Button/CUPOTY; via Colossal)

    #alcohol #deposition #evaporation #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #physics #science #surfaceTension

  16. The Balvenie

    Photographer Ernie Button explores the stains left behind when various liquors evaporate. This one comes from a single malt scotch whisky by The Balvenie. The stain itself is made up of particles left behind when the alcohol and water in the whisky evaporate. The pattern itself depends on a careful interplay between surface tension, evaporation, pinning forces, and internal convection as the whisky puddle dries out. (Image credit: E. Button/CUPOTY; via Colossal)

    #alcohol #deposition #evaporation #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #physics #science #surfaceTension

  17. Growing Salty

    Ngangla Ringco sits atop the Tibetan Plateau, breaking up the barren landscape with eye-catching teal and blue. This saline lake sits at an altitude of 4,700 meters, fed by rainfall, Himalayan runoff, and melting glaciers and permafrost. The lake, like many inland bodies of salt water, has no outflow. Instead, water evaporates from the lake, leaving behind any salts that were dissolved in it. Over time, those left-behind salts build up and make the lake ever saltier. (Image credit: NASA; via NASA Earth Observatory)

    #astronaut #dissolution #evaporation #fluidDynamics #physics #salinity #satelliteImage #science

  18. Growing Salty

    Ngangla Ringco sits atop the Tibetan Plateau, breaking up the barren landscape with eye-catching teal and blue. This saline lake sits at an altitude of 4,700 meters, fed by rainfall, Himalayan runoff, and melting glaciers and permafrost. The lake, like many inland bodies of salt water, has no outflow. Instead, water evaporates from the lake, leaving behind any salts that were dissolved in it. Over time, those left-behind salts build up and make the lake ever saltier. (Image credit: NASA; via NASA Earth Observatory)

    #astronaut #dissolution #evaporation #fluidDynamics #physics #salinity #satelliteImage #science

  19. Evaporating Off Butterfly Scales

    This award-winning macro video shows scattered water droplets evaporating off a butterfly‘s wing. At first glance, it’s hard to see any motion outside of the camera’s sweep, but if you focus on one drop at a time, you’ll see them shrinking. For most of their lifetime, these tiny drops are nearly spherical; that’s due to the hydrophobic, water-shedding nature of the wing. But as the drops get smaller and less spherical, you may notice how the drop distorts the scales it adheres to. Wherever the drop touches, the wing scales are pulled up, and, when the drop is gone, the scales settle back down. This is a subtle but neat demonstration of the water’s adhesive power. (Video and image credit: J. McClellan; via Nikon Small World in Motion)

    Water droplets evaporate from the wing of a peacock butterfly.

    #adhesion #biology #butterfly #evaporation #fluidDynamics #hydrophobic #physics #science #sessileDrop

  20. Evaporating Off Butterfly Scales

    This award-winning macro video shows scattered water droplets evaporating off a butterfly‘s wing. At first glance, it’s hard to see any motion outside of the camera’s sweep, but if you focus on one drop at a time, you’ll see them shrinking. For most of their lifetime, these tiny drops are nearly spherical; that’s due to the hydrophobic, water-shedding nature of the wing. But as the drops get smaller and less spherical, you may notice how the drop distorts the scales it adheres to. Wherever the drop touches, the wing scales are pulled up, and, when the drop is gone, the scales settle back down. This is a subtle but neat demonstration of the water’s adhesive power. (Video and image credit: J. McClellan; via Nikon Small World in Motion)

    Water droplets evaporate from the wing of a peacock butterfly.

    #adhesion #biology #butterfly #evaporation #fluidDynamics #hydrophobic #physics #science #sessileDrop

  21. Evaporating Off Butterfly Scales

    This award-winning macro video shows scattered water droplets evaporating off a butterfly‘s wing. At first glance, it’s hard to see any motion outside of the camera’s sweep, but if you focus on one drop at a time, you’ll see them shrinking. For most of their lifetime, these tiny drops are nearly spherical; that’s due to the hydrophobic, water-shedding nature of the wing. But as the drops get smaller and less spherical, you may notice how the drop distorts the scales it adheres to. Wherever the drop touches, the wing scales are pulled up, and, when the drop is gone, the scales settle back down. This is a subtle but neat demonstration of the water’s adhesive power. (Video and image credit: J. McClellan; via Nikon Small World in Motion)

    Water droplets evaporate from the wing of a peacock butterfly.

    #adhesion #biology #butterfly #evaporation #fluidDynamics #hydrophobic #physics #science #sessileDrop

  22. Evaporating Off Butterfly Scales

    This award-winning macro video shows scattered water droplets evaporating off a butterfly‘s wing. At first glance, it’s hard to see any motion outside of the camera’s sweep, but if you focus on one drop at a time, you’ll see them shrinking. For most of their lifetime, these tiny drops are nearly spherical; that’s due to the hydrophobic, water-shedding nature of the wing. But as the drops get smaller and less spherical, you may notice how the drop distorts the scales it adheres to. Wherever the drop touches, the wing scales are pulled up, and, when the drop is gone, the scales settle back down. This is a subtle but neat demonstration of the water’s adhesive power. (Video and image credit: J. McClellan; via Nikon Small World in Motion)

    Water droplets evaporate from the wing of a peacock butterfly.

    #adhesion #biology #butterfly #evaporation #fluidDynamics #hydrophobic #physics #science #sessileDrop

  23. Evaporating Off Butterfly Scales

    This award-winning macro video shows scattered water droplets evaporating off a butterfly‘s wing. At first glance, it’s hard to see any motion outside of the camera’s sweep, but if you focus on one drop at a time, you’ll see them shrinking. For most of their lifetime, these tiny drops are nearly spherical; that’s due to the hydrophobic, water-shedding nature of the wing. But as the drops get smaller and less spherical, you may notice how the drop distorts the scales it adheres to. Wherever the drop touches, the wing scales are pulled up, and, when the drop is gone, the scales settle back down. This is a subtle but neat demonstration of the water’s adhesive power. (Video and image credit: J. McClellan; via Nikon Small World in Motion)

    Water droplets evaporate from the wing of a peacock butterfly.

    #adhesion #biology #butterfly #evaporation #fluidDynamics #hydrophobic #physics #science #sessileDrop

  24. “C R Y S T A L S”

    In “C R Y S T A L S,” filmmaker Thomas Blanchard captures the slow, inexorable growth of potassium phosphate crystals. He took over 150,000 images — one per minute — to document the way crystals formed as the originally transparent liquid evaporated. Some crystals branch into fractals. Others bulge outward like a condensing cloud or a sprouting mushroom. (Video and image credit: T. Blanchard)

    #crystalGrowth #evaporation #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #physics #science #timelapse

  25. “C R Y S T A L S”

    In “C R Y S T A L S,” filmmaker Thomas Blanchard captures the slow, inexorable growth of potassium phosphate crystals. He took over 150,000 images — one per minute — to document the way crystals formed as the originally transparent liquid evaporated. Some crystals branch into fractals. Others bulge outward like a condensing cloud or a sprouting mushroom. (Video and image credit: T. Blanchard)

    #crystalGrowth #evaporation #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #physics #science #timelapse

  26. Hypereutrophication, Hydrogen Sulfide, And Environmental Injustices - Mechanisms And Knowledge Gaps At The Salton Sea
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    doi.org/10.1029/2024GH001327
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    [I have long been fascinated by this ‘accidental waterbody’, from its creation all the way through the extreme pollution issues as it evaporates – and the lithium under it – a heck of a history, culturally, demographically, hydrologically, contaminants, public health, agriculturally and so much more…]
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #Hypereutrophication #HydrogenSulfide, #EnvironmentalInjustice #SaltonSea #California #publichealth #water #hydrology #sea #waterbody #accident #fertiliser #fertilizer #dust #dustborne #lake #degradation #health #community #rural #Latinx #Hispanic #farmworkers #children #TorresMartinezDesert #Cahuilla #Indian #FirstNation #evaporation #H2S #research #waterquality #waterresources #agriculture #environment #airquality #wind #airborne #spatialanalysis #monitoring #spatiotemporal #sensor #emissions #nutrients #Coachella #ImperialValley #sediment

  27. Hypereutrophication, Hydrogen Sulfide, And Environmental Injustices - Mechanisms And Knowledge Gaps At The Salton Sea
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    doi.org/10.1029/2024GH001327
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    [I have long been fascinated by this ‘accidental waterbody’, from its creation all the way through the extreme pollution issues as it evaporates – and the lithium under it – a heck of a history, culturally, demographically, hydrologically, contaminants, public health, agriculturally and so much more…]
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  28. Hypereutrophication, Hydrogen Sulfide, And Environmental Injustices - Mechanisms And Knowledge Gaps At The Salton Sea
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    doi.org/10.1029/2024GH001327
    -
    [I have long been fascinated by this ‘accidental waterbody’, from its creation all the way through the extreme pollution issues as it evaporates – and the lithium under it – a heck of a history, culturally, demographically, hydrologically, contaminants, public health, agriculturally and so much more…]
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #Hypereutrophication #HydrogenSulfide, #EnvironmentalInjustice #SaltonSea #California #publichealth #water #hydrology #sea #waterbody #accident #fertiliser #fertilizer #dust #dustborne #lake #degradation #health #community #rural #Latinx #Hispanic #farmworkers #children #TorresMartinezDesert #Cahuilla #Indian #FirstNation #evaporation #H2S #research #waterquality #waterresources #agriculture #environment #airquality #wind #airborne #spatialanalysis #monitoring #spatiotemporal #sensor #emissions #nutrients #Coachella #ImperialValley #sediment

  29. Hypereutrophication, Hydrogen Sulfide, And Environmental Injustices - Mechanisms And Knowledge Gaps At The Salton Sea
    -
    doi.org/10.1029/2024GH001327
    -
    [I have long been fascinated by this ‘accidental waterbody’, from its creation all the way through the extreme pollution issues as it evaporates – and the lithium under it – a heck of a history, culturally, demographically, hydrologically, contaminants, public health, agriculturally and so much more…]
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #Hypereutrophication #HydrogenSulfide, #EnvironmentalInjustice #SaltonSea #California #publichealth #water #hydrology #sea #waterbody #accident #fertiliser #fertilizer #dust #dustborne #lake #degradation #health #community #rural #Latinx #Hispanic #farmworkers #children #TorresMartinezDesert #Cahuilla #Indian #FirstNation #evaporation #H2S #research #waterquality #waterresources #agriculture #environment #airquality #wind #airborne #spatialanalysis #monitoring #spatiotemporal #sensor #emissions #nutrients #Coachella #ImperialValley #sediment

  30. Hypereutrophication, Hydrogen Sulfide, And Environmental Injustices - Mechanisms And Knowledge Gaps At The Salton Sea
    -
    doi.org/10.1029/2024GH001327
    -
    [I have long been fascinated by this ‘accidental waterbody’, from its creation all the way through the extreme pollution issues as it evaporates – and the lithium under it – a heck of a history, culturally, demographically, hydrologically, contaminants, public health, agriculturally and so much more…]
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #Hypereutrophication #HydrogenSulfide, #EnvironmentalInjustice #SaltonSea #California #publichealth #water #hydrology #sea #waterbody #accident #fertiliser #fertilizer #dust #dustborne #lake #degradation #health #community #rural #Latinx #Hispanic #farmworkers #children #TorresMartinezDesert #Cahuilla #Indian #FirstNation #evaporation #H2S #research #waterquality #waterresources #agriculture #environment #airquality #wind #airborne #spatialanalysis #monitoring #spatiotemporal #sensor #emissions #nutrients #Coachella #ImperialValley #sediment

  31. Quick-Drying, Fast-Cracking

    Water droplets filled with nanoparticles leave behind deposits as they evaporate. Like a coffee ring, particles in the evaporating droplet tend to gather at the drop’s edge (left). As the water evaporates, the deposit grows inward (center) and cracks start to form radially. After just a couple minutes, the solid deposit covers the entire area of the original droplet and is shot through with cracks (right).

    Researchers found that the cracks’ patterns and propagation are predictable through a model that balances the local elastic energy and and the energy cost of fracture. They also found that the spacing between radial cracks depends on the deposit’s local thickness. Besides explaining the patterns seen here, these cracking models could help analyze old paintings, where cracks could hide information about the artist’s methods and the artwork’s condition. (Image and research credit: P. Lilit et al.; via Physics Today)

    #art #cracking #deposition #droplets #drying #evaporation #fluidDynamics #particleSuspension #physics #science