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Saturday 20 July 2013

VIDEO: THE WORLD'S LONGEST EXPERIMENT COMPLETED


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Video of the Day: World's longest experiment completed
By Megan Wollerton,
Dvice, 19 July 2013.

Trinity College Dublin has finally done it: they captured a drop of tar pitch falling - it's taken 69 years for this experiment to be completed, making it one of the longest-running lab tests ever.

The goal was to show that tar pitch, which is a solid, carbonic material, has liquid properties as well. But there's a catch: you have to give it time to do its thing. 69 years in this case. Good thing the camera was working - the same experiment was conducted earlier in Australia, but the camera was offline when the pitch eventually dropped back in 2000.

Video: Pitch tar drop finally falls!


Via YouTube

Top image screen captured from video.

[Source: Dvice. Edited. Top image added.]


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