The theory is relatively simple: Seawater and freshwater, filtered to remove silt, are fed into pipes which lead to a membrane system, made up of spiral coils to maximize surface area.

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Starting his racing campaign a little later than his stablemate, Animal Kingdom was second by a head in a turf race in early March, an effort that sent him north to the Grade 3 Vinery Spiral over the synthetic surface at Turfway Park in Kentucky.

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There, the starry guts spiral down to the neutron star's surface, heating to over a billion degrees as they go.

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Inventor, Hideki Watanabe, created the prototype using dental plaster from his practice that he used to line the inside surface of a metal pot in a spiral design.

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The result was to convert the surface of a glass plate into the shape of a spiral staircase with 16 steps.

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