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See how a blow dryer keeps ping-pong balls floating and balloons spinning in midair

Liz Heinecke, "Kitchen Pantry Scientist," demonstrates the Bernoulli principle, which says a fast-moving stream of air has lower pressure. That’s why a ball hovers in a blow dryer’s airstream, and, she says, how planes fly.
2h ago (03:19)
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