Brazil nut effect (IMAGE)

University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics

Brazil nut effect

Caption

In a bag of mixed nuts, after shaking, smaller nuts fill in the gaps created at the bottom, pushing the larger Brazil nuts to the top.

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User:Melchoir, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons

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