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You can not “make” a given liquid like that but there are some liquids with low surface tension. From the back of my head I remember the Avogadro experiment, but to lazy to look it up. What I recall is that he “counted” the amount of particles in a drop of oil because it forms a mini layer of lying on top of water. You might notice when you drop a bit of oil in water, that it always creates a giant puddle.

Back to the original post: that thin layer of water would just evaporated instantly

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tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
wouldn’t it alao be impossible to drink? The water would just seep out of any cup and find the path of least resistance to the floor

At least with oil you can just raw dog the nozzle and squeeze it directly in, guzzling down those calories by the gallon at least until the attendant starts to run over, but then you pull out your lighter and shake your head until he backs off

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- nonfuinoncuro@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  wat
  
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  - tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    we’re talking extreme fluid dynamics are we not
    
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    nonfuinoncuro@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
So it would actually be more practical, don’t need to mop it up if it evaporates.

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- Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  This is how science fiction is made! Special Meta materials and grossly under-explored, It seems reasonable that in a future high tech society they would be increasingly common.
  
  Mostly we get “faster engines and advanced computermachines that sometimes perform unexplained magic”
  
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