Template:Did you know nominations/Stokes wave

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The result was: promoted by PumpkinSky talk 22:19, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Stokes wave

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• ... that it took 120 years before it was discovered that deep-water Stokes waves (pictured), named after George Gabriel Stokes, are unstable?

• Reviewed: Arati Prabhakar
• Comment: Article moved from my user space, replacing a redirect

Created/expanded by Crowsnest (talk). Self nom at 12:06, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

• This is an impressive article that is new enough and long enough. The hook reference is offline and the image is in the public domain. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:44, 14 September 2012 (UTC)