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Wind shakes a plant stem, causing droplets to stretch and get plucked away. Text reads, "A sudden blast of wind stretches the droplets and plucks them from the stem"

Composite of four colored droplets being plucked. Text reads, "Let's replicate the phenomena in the lab"

Zoom in on the droplet in the process of breaking away.

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