Releasing a handful of salt into a pasta pan can result in a circular ring deposit (IMAGE)

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Releasing a handful of salt into a pasta pan can result in a circular ring deposit

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Releasing a handful of salt into a pasta pan can result in a circular ring deposit, which shows the sedimentation history of the particle cloud.

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Mathieu Souzy

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