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Impact-Activated Solidification of Cornstarch and Water Suspensions

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In its simplest definition, a suspension is a mixture of macroscopic, undissolved, hard particles in a liquid. From paints to oils to beauty products, suspensions surround us in our everyday lives. They also exhibit rich and interesting phenomena at the forefront of physics and materials science.

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Waitukaitis, S.R. (2015). Introduction. In: Impact-Activated Solidification of Cornstarch and Water Suspensions. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09183-9_1

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