What's Cooking Out There?

By Solana Pyne
Dec 1, 2001 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 6:32 AM

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Imagine a boiling pot in space. Herman Merte, an engineer at the University of Michigan, has explored this twist on everyday physics during a series of space-shuttle experiments. He filled a test chamber with liquid Freon and heated it to boiling. Last June, Francis Chiaramonte of NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland compiled and released videos of the experiments.

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