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Kids watching beads drifting through fluids of different viscosities at the OIST Science Festival

Photo of two children and their respective intently watching a tall, transparent cylinder filled with different liquids, one tinged yellow and the other clear. A tiny black bead is suspended in the clear liquid. In the background, other children and parents are participating in different fluid experiments.

Date:

01 February 2025

Credit:

Jeff Prine / OIST

Copyright OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, 沖縄科学技術大学院大学). Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

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