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WE report here the observation of hot metal particles which remain suspended above a cool liquid surface by vapour generation: the effect may be referred to as the inverse Leidenfrost phenomenon, by analogy with the well known effect of the suspension of a liquid drop above a heated surface1. The mechanism of suspension in the latter case is postulated to be the pressure produced by vapour escaping from beneath the drop, the vapour having been generated by the action of the hot surface on the drop2.
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Leidenfrost, J. G., see Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 9, 1153 (1966).
Gottfried, R. S., and Bell, K. J., I. and E.C. Fundamentals, 5, 561 (1966).
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HALL, R., BOARD, S., CLARE, A. et al. Inverse Leidenfrost Phenomenon. Nature 224, 266–267 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224266a0
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