ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] We have studied the dynamics of piles of rice for several system sizes (Fig. 1). Grains of rice were slowly fed into the gap between two vertical, parallel plates. Mass accumulated in the pile until it reached a quasi-stationary state. Under continued addition, avalanches redistributed mass along ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/379049a0
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