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BabyPeanut on January 2, 2006 - 6:59am

I just find it hard to believe that if you push gas into a pipeline it won't come out the other end simply from the insertion pressure. Does it get stuck?

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wkwillis on January 2, 2006 - 9:23am

More or less, yes. It's called viscosity.
Big whorls have little whorls
That feed on their velocity,
And little whorls have lesser whorls
And so on to viscosity.

-- Lewis F. Richardson

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