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This striped pattern shows up in a chemical reaction due to a competition between convection and diffusion.

As expected for a convection-dependent phenomenon, the instability does not show up in microgravity.

In hypergravity, though, the pattern is even stranger!

←Elastocapillary Winding

Acrylic Fractals→

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