The oil runs down slowly but leaves a long streak. The corn syrup barely moves at all. Each liquid has certain characteristics based on the molecules it is made of. The plastic also has certain ...

Liquid-crystal molecules tend to be elongated and to orient in specific directions. The Fréedericksz transition, a key electro-optic phenomenon in nonpolar nematic liquid crystals, is suppressed ...

Unlike in ice, these bonds are broken and re-formed on average 1 trillion times per second in liquid water, so that the water molecules can be packed closer together and move very quickly.

Dissolving a solid in a liquid depends on the interactions and attractions between the molecules of the liquid (solvent) and the particles of the solid (solute). Dissolving happens when the attraction ...

It has been noted that the mean velocity of the liquid molecules adjacent to a solid have a non-zero velocity – that is, they slip-relative to the solid. But, what is the manner in which liquids move ...