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A colloidal particle straddling an air/water interface experiences an unexpectedly large viscous drag.

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Figure 1: Increased drag of a colloidal particle straddling a fluid/fluid interface.

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  1. Vinothan N. Manoharan is at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and in the Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA,

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