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Volcanic eruptions are unpredictable phenomena that pose a challenge to crisis management, owing the fact contrasted eruptive styles (explosive versus effusive) exhibited at surface depend on unobservable deep processes occurring in reservoir and volcanic conduit. Constricting behaviour of magma during ascent, degassing particular, allows for clearer understanding relationships between petrolog...

During the Leidenfrost effect, a thin insulating vapor layer separates an evaporating liquid from hot solid. Here we demonstrate that layers can be sustained at much lower temperatures than those required for formation. Using high-speed electrical technique to measure thickness of water over smooth, metallic surfaces, find explosive failure point is nearly independent material and fluid propert...

A speedboat full of explosives crashes into an Indian oil platform located 160 kilometers off the coast of Mumbai, causing an immense explosion.1 As a result, fifteen crewmembers are killed, hundreds of millions of dollars of damage is inflicted, and India is left without a vital source of energy. Additionally, the explosion causes a massive oil leak with the attendant catastrophic ecological e...