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Soft matter and liquids

Soft matter and liquids

Fluids only get so runny as physicists put a universal lower limit on viscosity

02 May 2020
Minimum viscosity
Fundamental constants: a minimum value of viscosity has been calculated by Kostya Trachenko and Vadim Brazhkin (Courtesy: iStock/3quarks).
Viscosity is an everyday phenomenon recognizable in the difference between slow-pouring liquids like

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Edwin Cartlidge is a science writer based in the UK
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