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milliways_bar2014-12-12 05:58 pm
electro_kinetic) wrote in milliways_bar2014-12-12 05:58 pm
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There is a Noriko in the bar today rather absorbed in a project. (Passersby may take notice, because she's rather glowing as she works.)
She has a hexagonal Chladni plate fastened to a sound emitter, forming node patterns in superfine sand, each snowflake-like pattern beautifully unique for each sound. As each one stabilizes, she turns off the sound--thankfully she has earphones around her neck to deaden the noise--and touches the plate with her fingertips evenly spaced around the rim. That's when the amazing part happens.
With such high current running through it the sand solidifies into glass threads, thin as sport-weight yarn as they cool down from the rocket-hot red-orange-white. Getting them off the plate proves slightly harder, but with gentle twists of a butter knife's blade they come free with minimal cracking. She really should invest in some silicone.
She has a hexagonal Chladni plate fastened to a sound emitter, forming node patterns in superfine sand, each snowflake-like pattern beautifully unique for each sound. As each one stabilizes, she turns off the sound--thankfully she has earphones around her neck to deaden the noise--and touches the plate with her fingertips evenly spaced around the rim. That's when the amazing part happens.
With such high current running through it the sand solidifies into glass threads, thin as sport-weight yarn as they cool down from the rocket-hot red-orange-white. Getting them off the plate proves slightly harder, but with gentle twists of a butter knife's blade they come free with minimal cracking. She really should invest in some silicone.
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