tea leaf paradox (English, name)
expansion: the tea leaf paradox
Senses:
topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The phenomenon whereby tea leaves in a cup of tea migrate to the center and bottom of the cup after being stirred (due to friction towards the bottom), rather than being forced to the edges, as would be expected in a spiral centrifuge.
Forms:
form: the tea leaf paradox
tags: canonical