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You can do worse than watching paint dry – ask physics
I live in Chennai, a city whose multifaceted identity includes its unrelenting humidity. Its summers are seldom hotter than those in Delhi but they are more unbearable because it leaves people sweaty, dehydrated, and irritated. Delhi’s heat doesn’t have the … Continue reading
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Tagged active process, advection, compressive stress, evaporation, Jean-Baptiste Salmon, Physical Review Letters, polymer gelation, relative humidity, skin, sweating
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