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The Pitch Drop Experiment
Episode 32

The Pitch Drop Experiment

All about the world's longest running scientific experiment

Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More

August 1, 20209m 50s

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Show Notes

In 1927, Professor Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia created an experiment to demonstrate to his students the concept of viscosity and how some substances which appear to be solids are actually liquids. That experiment is still running 90 years later.

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