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Published online 2 January 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031229-8
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Secrets of stone skimming revealed
Magic angle boosts bounces.
Want to skim the perfect stone? A team of French researchers have worked out how, using their very own stone-skipping machine.
The motorised catapult fires aluminium discs into a two metre-long pool of water.
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