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the moment liquid forgets its place and becomes architecture instead.
means Full of or covered in foam or small bubbles, or by extension light, airy, and pleasantly insubstantial.
from From "froth," which English borrowed from Old Norse "froða" — the same Norse seafaring vocabulary that gave us the churn of waves and the head on a horn of ale. The "-y" is the ordinary English suffix that turns a noun into a quality, so "frothy" is simply "having the nature of froth." Its bubbly literal sense floated easily into the figurative one: anything light, frivolous, or all surface and no substance has been called frothy since at least the 1500s.
- physics
- Foam is mostly air, held hostage by surface tension.
- latte art
- Microfoam bubbles are too tiny for the eye alone.
- market term
- A frothy economy is one bubble from regret.
- ocean source
- Sea foam comes from dissolved fish and algae proteins.
guinness head — the dense 1.5-2 inch foam layer that forms on properly poured guinness stout due to nitrogen bubbles
sea foam at pipeline — toxic foam that covers oahu's north shore beach, caused by algae blooms and surfactants, especially during winter swells
cappuccino microfoam — the velvety milk foam layer in espresso drinks, achieved at exactly 150-155°f with steam wand technique