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Practice Reading: Reading and Writing Fill in the Blanks ID: #6367 Granular Materials
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Part  of  the  fun  of  experimenting  with  granular  materials,  says  Stephen  W.  Morris,  is  the  showmanship.  In  one  stunt  that  he  has  demonstrated  in  settings  ranging  from  high  school  classrooms  to  television  studios,  the  University  of  Toronto    loads  clear  plastic  tubes  with  white  table  salt  and  black  sand  and  starts  them  rotating.  What  transpires  in  the  tubes  usually  knocks  the  socks  off  of  any    bystander.  Instead  of  mixing  into  a  drab  gray  sameness,  the  sand  particles  slowly  separate  into  crisp  black  bands  cutting  across  a  long,  narrow  field  of  salt.  As  the  spinning  continues,  some  bands  disappear  and  new  ones  arise.
Its  a  parlor  trick,  Morris  says.  Not  to  deny  its  entertainment  value,  this    of  how  strangely  granular  materials  can  behave  is  also  an  authentic  experiment  in  a  field  both  rich  in  fundamental  physics  and  major  practical  consequences.  Yet  granular  mixing  today  remains  more  of  an  art  than  a  ,  says  chemical  engineer  Fernando  J.

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