ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Imbert–Fedorov effect

Okay, so imagine you have a toy car that you want to push around on the floor. You're going to need some way to make it move, right? Now imagine you have a little straw that you can blow air through. If you aim the straw at the back of the car and blow really hard, the air will push the car forward!

Now imagine you have something called a gasifier. This is like a big machine that can turn things like wood or coal into a gas that can be used to make things run. We use gasifiers to power things like cars and generators.

But here's the cool part - if you set up the gasifier so that the gas comes out of it in a certain way (kind of like aiming the straw at the back of the car), it can actually make the gasifier work even better! This is called the Imbert-Fedorov effect.

Basically, the Imbert-Fedorov effect is a way to make gasifiers more efficient by changing the way the gas comes out of them. It's kind of like blowing on the back of your toy car to make it go faster. By using this effect, we can make things like cars and generators run better and more cleanly. Pretty cool, huh?