Superfluids are weird liquids that flow with no friction and can perform fantastic feats, such as spontaneously crawling over the walls of containers. Theorists have proposed that quantum-mechanical interactions among even a few atoms can give rise to such behaviors.
HELIUM BALLOONS. Large ring marks where helium atoms first surround a nitrous oxide molecule.
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