Fountain Effect -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Experimental Physics "> Effects v

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Fountain Effect

Also known as the thermomechanical effect. When radiation warms a superfluid, the expansion pushes up the free surface of the liquid forming a fountain. This causes liquid helium II to flow up the sides of open containers.