English Explanatory Dictionary

Leidenfrost effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The phenomenon whereby a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapour layer which keeps the liquid from boiling rapidly.

Word forms

Leidenfrost effect Leidenfrost effects

Etymology

After Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost.

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