Here’s What Happens When You Throw Water Into Hot Oil

It ’s a spoilt idea to essay to put out an oil firing with water , and this video will show you why . It will also show you a drop of water crazily growing and shrinking , over and over , inside some live crude .

Here we see water drop in live oil . Starting at 1:58 , the driblet undergo a very weird appendage that look like a ocular stammer , or someone annul and replay the video several times in a row . What ’s actually happen is a battle between the heat causing the water to expand and the insistency of the vegetable oil causing the water system to break down . According toFuck Yeah Fluid moral force :

“ The initial weewee droplet expands as it shifts from liquid to vapor ( top ) . At a critical volume , the enlargement occurs explosively ( center ) , causing the house of cards to over - enlarge proportional to the pressure of the surrounding fluid . The higher pressure of the oil around it collapses the drop , which then re - expands , creating the cycle we see in the net two animations . This oscillation set off aRayleigh - Taylor character instabilityalong the bubble ’s interface , causing the surface corrugation observed . ”