Heated popcorn doesn’t just pop, it jumps and yells. What makes it leap off the cooking surface, and what really causes the pop? In the journal Interface, two French researchers used a high-speed camera to look into the physics of everyone’s favorite culinary explosion. The results are in the video above.
What Gives Popcorn Its Pop?
Slow-motion video shows why kernels leap and emit their distinctive sound.
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