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Normal liquid Helium: Impenetrability for "Super leak" |
Normal liquid He (He I) stored in a glassware sealed by a filter of the dense fine white powder (alumina powder), called a "Superleak", demonstrates that He I penetrates the Superleak very slowly because of a finite (i.e. normal) viscosity. This is very different from the case of Superfluid He II.