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Conversation quickly spreads droplets inside buildings | NSF – National Science Foundation
Ordinary talking creates a conical ‘jetlike’ airflow
Research NewsOrdinary talking creates a conical ‘jetlike’ airflow
Researchers filmed the movement of a mist of tiny droplets in front of a person.
October 1, 2020
With implications for the transmission of diseases like the flu, U.S. National Science Foundation-funded researchers have found that ordinary conversation creates a conical ‘jetlike’ airflow that quickly carries a spray of tiny droplets from a speaker’s mouth across an interior space.
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