"If, in some cataclysm, all scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis:
that all things are made of atoms, little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another.
In that one sentence you will see there's an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied."
- Richard Feynman
Measuring atoms with household objects
Here is a link to the data and graphs showing the
ratio of latent heat to surface tension for several liquids:
Liquid lengths
The original page in Cambridge is
Liquid lengths