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    A pitch drop experiment is a long-term experiment which measures the flow of a piece of pitch over many years. "Pitch" is the name for any of a number...
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    slowly. The pitch drop experiment taking place at University of Queensland is a long-term experiment which demonstrates the flow of a piece of pitch over many...
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    behavior. In the famous pitch drop experiments, pitch – a substance somewhat like solid bitumen – is shown to be a liquid in this way. Pitch in a funnel slowly...
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    Physics at the University of Queensland. He started the famous pitch drop experiment there. Thomas Parnell was born in West Haddon, Northamptonshire...
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  • behaves in much the same manner. The pitch drop experiment is a famous fluid breakup experiment using high viscous tar pitch. The rate of breakup is slowed...
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    Bituminous rocks Blacktop Cariphalte Duxit Macadam Oil sands Pitch drop experiment Pitch (resin) Road surface Tar Tarmac Sealcoat Stamped asphalt The...
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    S2CID 39833708. Edgeworth, R.; Dalton, B.J.; Parnell, T. (1984). "The pitch drop experiment". European Journal of Physics. 5 (4): 198–200. Bibcode:1984EJPh...
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  • Substances with a very high viscosity such as pitch appear to behave like a solid (see pitch drop experiment) as well. In particle physics, the concept is...
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    1864. The pitch drop experiment has been running at the University of Queensland since 1927. The William James Beal Germination Experiment has been running...
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  • patiently conducting the so-called pitch drop experiment that began in the year 1927—in which a glob of congealed black tar pitch has been slowly dripping through...
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  • experiments and inform students and the general public. At some stage (likely in 1984) he modified the long-running St. Andrews pitch drop experiment...
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    Oxford Electric Bell (category Physics experiments)
    have been constructed in 1825. Long-term experiment Franklin bells Beverly Clock (1864) Pitch drop experiment (1927) Clock of the Long Now "Walker, Robert"...
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    the clock begins operating again. Long-term experiment Oxford Electric Bell (1840) Pitch drop experiment (1927) Cox's timepiece Clock of the Long Now...
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  • century medicine made with opium Pitch drop experiment, demonstration of the time that it takes for a drop of pitch to fall This disambiguation page lists...
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    OCLC 957751024. Edgeworth, R.; Dalton, B.J.; Parnell, T. "The Pitch Drop Experiment". The University of Queensland Australia. Archived from the original...
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  • S2CID 94555820 Edgeworth, R; Dalton, B J; Parnell, T (1984), "The pitch drop experiment", European Journal of Physics, 5 (4): 198–200, Bibcode:1984EJPh...
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    University pavilion the world's longest lab experiment was on display. The pitch drop experiment, which features tar pitch slowly dripping through a funnel at...
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  • a time capsule at the abbey containing a long-term experiment inspired by the pitch drop experiment. The installation includes an extremely viscous petroleum-derived...
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  • its permanent home. In the same year, the pitch drop experiment was started by Thomas Parnell. The experiment has been described as the world's oldest...
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  • (orientation)--Overdrive – Oversteer – Pascal (unit) – Physics – Pinion – Piston – Pitch drop experiment – Plasma processing – Plasticity – Pneumatics – Poisson's ratio...
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  • modulus, and ultimate tensile strength. Physics – Pinion – Piston – Pitch drop experiment – Plain bearing – Plasma processing – Plasticity – Pneumatics –...
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    why the pile is still working. Oxford Electric Bell Beverly Clock Pitch drop experiment (in Romanian) Academia RPR, Dicționar Enciclopedic Român, București:...
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    represent the second longest running experiment at the University of Queensland to date – after the Pitch drop experiment initiated by Thomas Parnell. Bryan...
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  • Work begins on never-completed Holy Name Catholic Cathedral. 1927 Pitch drop experiment begins. 1928 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith lands in Brisbane, from...
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  • thermodynamics. Doppler experiment (1845): Christian Doppler arranges to have trumpets played from a passing train. The ground-observed pitch was higher than...
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    long term research project of the University, second only to the Pitch Drop experiment. The station was established following the Gayndah earthquake of...
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  • Thomas Parnell, first Professor of Physics at UQ, who started the pitch drop experiment Sandro Porceddu, radiation oncologist Hugh Possingham, conservation...
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  • research. Its most famous experiment is Parnell's Pitch Drop Experiment which is the longest running scientific experiment in the world. The school has...
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  • the pitch drop experiment at the University of Queensland. It will go on to become the world's longest continuously-running scientific experiment. George...
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  • X-248/Belle – A small cyan experiment with a pitchfork-shaped head who is designed to scare people with a loud high-pitched shriek. Her "one true place"...
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