Scientists Explain How Spaghetti Breaks.



Apparently, a bent dry spaghetti does not break in half but instead in three or more pieces.

After careful experiments, scientists discovered that ".. the mere release of the rod induces a stress increase. The multiple breaking of bent rods, like dry spaghetti pasta, can then be understood as a cascade of releases (loss of cohesion upon breakings) followed by stress increases leading to new cracks"

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Posted on September 28, 2005 at 10:05 pm by Alex
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