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Relation between Casimir and hydrophobic effects
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Some years ago I was studying "Fundamentos de biología" (Biology fundamentals) and learned how the lipids create a bilayer due to the water repulsion. Some time later I learned that this ...
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How can an an ant lift 50 times its own weight and pull 30 times its weight?
According to many sites like this one, an ant can apparently lift 50 times its own weight and pull 30 times its weight. Is it true?
Can it be proved using physics? Though most sites agree that an ...
