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Query:

Subject: Why are Cheerios drawn to each when they're floating in milk?

Date: Fri Feb 26 21:53:06 1999
Posted by Eva Valenti
Grade level: K-3 School: Discovery Center School
City: San Francisco State/Province: CA Country: U.S.A.
Area of science: Physics
ID: 920087586.Ph
Message:

When just a few or a lot of Cheerios are floating on top of milk 
in my cereal bowl, the Cheerios seem to "find" one another, like 
magnets or something. This happens even if they start quite far 
apart. How do they "know" they're not alone? What makes them come 
together? What makes them stick together?


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