Editing Pitch drop experiment (section)

==Trinity College Dublin experiment==
The pitch drop experiment at [[Trinity College Dublin]] in Ireland was started in October 1944 by an unknown colleague of the Nobel Prize winner [[Ernest Walton]] while he was in the physics department of Trinity College. This experiment, like the one at University of Queensland, was set up to demonstrate the high viscosity of pitch. This physics experiment sat on a shelf in a lecture hall at Trinity College unmonitored for decades as it dripped a number of times from the funnel to the receiving jar below, also gathering layers of dust.<ref name="Johnson_Nature">{{cite journal | last = Johnston | first = Richard | title = World's slowest-moving drop caught on camera at last | journal = Nature | publisher = [[Nature Publishing Group]] | date = 18 July 2013 | doi = 10.1038/nature.2013.13418 | s2cid = 139012227 | url = http://www.nature.com/news/world-s-slowest-moving-drop-caught-on-camera-at-last-1.13418 | access-date = 15 March 2014| url-access = subscription }}</ref><ref name="JVs9y">{{cite web | title = Trinity College experiment succeeds after 69 years | publisher = [[RTÉ News]] | date = 19 July 2013 | url = http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0717/463097-trinity-college-dublin-pitch-experiment/ | access-date = 19 July 2013}}</ref><ref name="nkLmc">{{cite web | last = Garber | first = Megan | title = The 3 Most Exciting Words in Science Right Now: 'The Pitch Dropped' | work = [[The Atlantic]] | date = 18 July 2013 | url = https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-3-most-exciting-words-in-science-right-now-the-pitch-dropped/277919/ | access-date = 19 July 2013}}</ref>

In April 2013, about a decade after the previous pitch drop, physicists at Trinity College noticed that another drip was forming. They moved the experiment to a table to monitor and record the falling drip with a webcam, allowing all present to watch.  The pitch dripped around 17:00&nbsp;[[Irish Standard Time|IST]] on 11 July 2013, marking the first time that a pitch drop was successfully recorded on camera.

Based on the results from this experiment, the Trinity College physicists estimated that the viscosity of the pitch is about two million times that of honey, or about 20&nbsp;billion times the viscosity of water.<ref name="Johnson_Nature" />