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   Commander Kinsey to Andy Burns   
   Re: Circles on water damaged monitor?   
   04 May 19 19:46:03   
   
   XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y   
   From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp   
      
   On Sat, 04 May 2019 19:15:01 +0100, Andy Burns  wrote:   
      
   > Commander Kinsey wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> Perfectly formed circles, after the monitor got wet (ok, my cat   
   >>>> "scented"   
   >>>> it, which I assume is salty water) - why the circles?  I can't   
   >>>> believe the   
   >>>> "water" physically spread that evenly.   
   >>>   
   >>> Yeah, never seen water do that.   
   >   
   > There are many layers within an LCD (individually they have strange   
   > optical properties) some of them have a textured matte finish, I could   
   > see that allowing liquid to "wick" between layers in a circular pattern.   
      
   But would it really be a PERFECT circle?   
      
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