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		Cheer2171 on Sept 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In 1870, Lord Rayleigh used oil and water to calcu... One drop in a soup bowl sized petri dish, measure the area it covers.

komali2 on Sept 24, 2024 [–]

Surely the first thing to test would be dropping it in increasingly large soup bowls until there's obvious gaps?

kqr on Sept 24, 2024 | [–]

How would the gaps be obvious? I'm not sure I could tell 1 molecule from 0 molecules when it comes to the thickness of oil film.

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