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Cheerios effect
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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
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English
Wikipedia
has an article on:
Cheerios effect
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Etymology
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Derived from the behavior of
Cheerios
breakfast cereal.
Proper noun
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Cheerios
effect
(
physics
)
The tendency for
objects
floating
on a liquid surface to clump together.
Alternative forms
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Cheerio effect
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