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Explain the trash islands
by bob29 4y ago
Explain the trash islands
- thereddaikon 4y agoI dont think its accurate to equate floating trash and something dissolved in solution. Their behavior is likely to be very different.
- mortenjorck 4y agoThis is presumably being downvoted for the unnecessary “gotcha” phrasing, but it is an interesting point of distinction. I have an intuitive guess as to the principles at work, but I don’t really know the actual physics.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> but I don’t really know the actual physics Vastly oversimplifying: two versus three dimensions.
- rcme 4y agoI don’t think that explains it at all. So garbage floats (more or less), so can be modeled as a 2D plane. But why do patches form? Why isn’t the garbage distributed uniformly across the plane? And why doesn’t that same mechanism apply in 3D?
- thefurdrake 4y agoExplain the lack of sodium islands. E: "Cesium dissolves easily in water."[1] [1] https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radionuclide-basics-cesium-137 https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radionuclide-basics-cesium-137