If you’ve ever cooked pasta, you’ve probably noticed the faint, whitish ring of salt deposits left behind in your pot. It’s a ...

In Physics of Fluids, the group reports their findings about what causes these peculiar salt particle cloud deposits to form. Their experiment is simple to set up, easily reproducible, and ...

Physicist Mathieu Souzy of the University Twente was enjoying an evening of pasta and board games with several colleagues when the conversation turned to how adding salt to a pasta pot to make it boil ...

In Physics of Fluids, from AIP Publishing, the group reports their findings about what causes these peculiar salt particle cloud deposits to form. Their experiment is simple to set up, easily ...

The particles then rain down to form this familiar homogeneous circular deposit of salt. By dropping larger particles from a greater height, the rings can appear more circular. [ Related ...

Releasing a handful of salt into a pasta pan can result in a circular ring deposit, which shows the sedimentation history of the particle cloud.