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researchers covered a steel ball with Glaco Mirror Coat, a water-hating material, along with some other water-repelling chemical
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turned the sphere’s exterior into a nanoscale mountain range peppered with deep valleys
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Heating the sphere to 400º Celsius and dropping it in room-temperature water spurred boiling, but no furious bubbles
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water near the sphere became vapor that got trapped in the valleys on the sphere’s surface. Eventually this sheet of vapor slipped off and a new one formed
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Treating the surface of another sphere to make it water-loving had the opposite effect, locking the water in the violent bubbling phase
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Manipulating this phase-chemistry could lead to tricks for reducing drag on ships or preventing forceful bubbling explosions in labs or kitchens
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