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The Amazing Micro-Engineered, Water-Repelling Surface That Lives Outside My Window

 

That’s not how water usually behaves.
Water wets things
. It clings to the surface and flattens out like a pancake. It doesn’t roll around like a glass bead. This leaf must have some kind of natural water-repelling surface that prevents it from getting wet.

 

Some slo-mo video of drops hitting a leaf at the link

 


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