vapor layer of thickness (IMAGE)
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As soon as the platinum foil was heated to 727 °C (1,000 Kelvin), a snapshot was taken every 0.4 nanoseconds. The snapshots show that a vapor layer of thickness d = 6 nm forms within less than one nanosecond.
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(ill./©: Y. Liu et al.: "Formation of nanoscale vapor films governing thermal resistance in amorphous ice", Communications Chemistry 9, 289 (2026) / CC-BY-4.0)
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