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An Everyday Scientific Mystery: New Study Reveals Universal Secrets of Granular Matter
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Published on April 25, 2024 - Duration: 01:07s
An Everyday Scientific Mystery: New Study Reveals Universal Secrets of Granular Matter
Coffee beans in a jar and piles of rice or sand are examples of granular matter: materials composed of large numbers of macroscopic—rather than atomic scale—particles.
Although granular matter is extremely familiar in everyday life, it represents an unexpected frontier in fundamental physics: Very little is understood about it.