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PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:40 am 
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http://smp.uq.edu.au/content/pitch-drop-experiment
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The first Professor of Physics at UQ, Professor Thomas Parnell, began an experiment in 1927 to illustrate that everyday materials can exhibit quite surprising properties. The experiment demonstrates the fluidity and high viscosity of pitch, a derivative of tar once used for waterproofing boats. At room temperature pitch feels solid - even brittle - and can easily be shattered with a blow from a hammer. It's quite amazing then, to see that pitch at room temperature is actually fluid!

In 1927 Professor Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into a glass funnel with a sealed stem. Three years were allowed for the pitch to settle, and in 1930 the sealed stem was cut. From that date on the pitch has slowly dripped out of the funnel - so slowly that now, 83 years later, the ninth drop is only just fully formed.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:11 am 
Not only is the pitch firm like a rock it also changes to it's surrounding while giving lots of space. The changes are so minute that they go undetected, cloaking at it's best.


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