This video demonstrates that water can hold more objects than expected due to surface tension, as shown by a paperclip chain experiment where 100 paperclips do not cause overflow, but 115 paperclips do, illustrating how surface tension allows water to support additional weight beyond its apparent capacity.
Deep Dive
Prerequisite Knowledge
- No data available.
Install our extension to search inside any video instantly.
Where to go next
- No data available.
Deep Dive
Unbelievable Paperclip Tricks You Must Try! 🎉Added:
If I drop pepper clip in, will the water overflow? No. [music] Then try to guess how many of them I need to do it. 10, 69, or 100?
Okay, first 10. And it's too easy. This is the wrong answer. Let's speed it up with the chain of five. Clip train time.
40 55 60 [music] 70 80 85 90 100 still not enough. Let's continue.
The answer is 115.
Related Videos
Is dark matter real? - Why can't we find it? - physicist explains | Don Lincoln and Lex Fridman
LexClips
1K views•2026-05-30
Saptarshi Basu - Spectacular Voyage of Droplets: A Multiscale Journey to Extreme Flow Conditions
DAlembert-SU-CNRS
152 views•2026-06-02
A 6.0 Just Hit Hawaii — And It Came From The Wrong Place
TerraWatchHQ
115 views•2026-06-03
The Split-Second Mistake That Made Bouncing Bettys So Deadly
NoMansLandChannel
253 views•2026-06-02
Nobody Expected This Lava Reaction 🤯 #faits #facts
TendzDora
28K views•2026-05-30
The Silent Memory of Glass
UnchartedScienceworld
146 views•2026-05-30
The Difference In Charged And Neutral Particles
heavybrainspace
959 views•2026-05-29
A380 vs Every Vehicles Crash Test Challenge | Which One Win?
BeamLap
163 views•2026-05-29











