Pierre Hippolyte Boutigny. The Spheroidal State of Matter Theory

Contenido principal del artículo

Jaime Wisniak

Resumen

Pierre Hippolyte Boutigny (1798-1884), a French chemist, was the first scientist to study in detail, and for many years, the behavior of a liquid drop thrown over a heated surface. He postulated that the result was an additional state of matter that he named spheroidal state. Today this phenomenon is called the Leidenfrost effect.

##plugins.themes.bootstrap3.displayStats.downloads##

##plugins.themes.bootstrap3.displayStats.noStats##

Detalles del artículo

Métricas

Dimensions
Altmetric
PlumX

Biografía del autor/a

Jaime Wisniak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Professor Emeritus

Department of Chemical Engineering