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From the Ted Talk by Mark Shaw: One very dry demo

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So what's going on here? What's happening? Well, the surface of the spray catnoig is actually filled with ntearniapcols that form a very rough and clggray surface. You'd think it'd be smooth, but it's actually not. And it has blniolis of interstitial spaces, and those spaces, along with the nanoparticles, reach up and grab the air molecules, and cvoer the surface with air. It's an umbrella of air all across it, and that laeyr of air is what the water hits, the mud hits, the concrete hits, and it glides right off. So if I put this inside this water here, you can see a silver reflective coating around it, and that silver rlecfvteie coating is the layer of air that's protecting the water from touching the paddle, and it's dry.

Open Cloze

So what's going on here? What's happening? Well, the surface of the spray _______ is actually filled with _____________ that form a very rough and _______ surface. You'd think it'd be smooth, but it's actually not. And it has ________ of interstitial spaces, and those spaces, along with the nanoparticles, reach up and grab the air molecules, and _____ the surface with air. It's an umbrella of air all across it, and that _____ of air is what the water hits, the mud hits, the concrete hits, and it glides right off. So if I put this inside this water here, you can see a silver reflective coating around it, and that silver __________ coating is the layer of air that's protecting the water from touching the paddle, and it's dry.

Solution

  1. reflective
  2. cover
  3. layer
  4. nanoparticles
  5. coating
  6. craggly
  7. billions

Original Text

So what's going on here? What's happening? Well, the surface of the spray coating is actually filled with nanoparticles that form a very rough and craggly surface. You'd think it'd be smooth, but it's actually not. And it has billions of interstitial spaces, and those spaces, along with the nanoparticles, reach up and grab the air molecules, and cover the surface with air. It's an umbrella of air all across it, and that layer of air is what the water hits, the mud hits, the concrete hits, and it glides right off. So if I put this inside this water here, you can see a silver reflective coating around it, and that silver reflective coating is the layer of air that's protecting the water from touching the paddle, and it's dry.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

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silver reflective 2
reflective coating 2

ngrams of length 3

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silver reflective coating 2

Important Words

  1. air
  2. billions
  3. coating
  4. concrete
  5. cover
  6. craggly
  7. dry
  8. filled
  9. form
  10. glides
  11. grab
  12. happening
  13. hits
  14. interstitial
  15. layer
  16. molecules
  17. mud
  18. nanoparticles
  19. paddle
  20. protecting
  21. put
  22. reach
  23. reflective
  24. rough
  25. silver
  26. smooth
  27. spaces
  28. spray
  29. surface
  30. touching
  31. umbrella
  32. water