The Ketchup Explosion
Had any of your snacks got spoiled by your sibling, who has put extra condiment on your dish? If yes, ever wondered who is the culprit? Most of the times we can obviously blame our siblings for every bad situation, but this time the ketchup is at fault. Fluids, we come across in everyday life, like water, flows out easily from the bottle. Then why does we have to thwack the Ketchup bottle (glass one) the bottom, for 5 minutes? It is super convenient if you have a plastic squeeze bottle (especially the ones that sit with the cap down) or packets. Why does ketchup behave so weird? Good question. Let's delve deeper into this. To understand this behaviour, rudimentary understanding of viscosity might help. What is Viscosity? Viscosity is basically a fluid's internal resistance to flow. Think of water and honey, if we start pouring water and honey from a point, which will flow faster? Water ofcourse, why is it so? Because water has less viscosity than honey i.e. fluids with less