Talk:Laplace pressure
Latest comment: 11 years ago by 138.194.11.244 in topic Antimicrobial nanoemulsions
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Units edit
What are the units? Biscuittin (talk) 16:11, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
What is "o"? edit
This article says:
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- where:
- Pinside = pressure inside bubble
- Poutside pressure outside bubble
- r = radius of bubble
- where:
But it doesn't say what "o" is. Michael Hardy (talk) 23:59, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Antimicrobial nanoemulsions edit
The article currently has:
- The same calculation can be done for small oil droplets in water, where even in the presence of surfactants and a fairly low interfacial tension \gamma = 5–10 mN/m, the pressure inside 100 nm diameter droplets can reach several atmospheres. Such nanoemulsions can be antibacterial because the large pressure inside the oil droplets can cause them to attach to bacteria, and simply merge with them, swell them, and "pop" them.[2]
in which reference 2 is the bare URL http://nano.med.umich.edu/Platforms/Antimicrobial-Nanoemulsion.html. However, viewing the reference I see no mention of the relevance of high internal pressure, as the WP article suggests.
—DIV (138.194.11.244 (talk) 05:23, 19 July 2012 (UTC))