Published June 17, 2026 | Version v2

Kitchen-Scale Breath Figures and Coalescence Events: Preliminary Measured Outputs from a Phone-Camera Condensation Run

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This companion paper updates the earlier kitchen-scale condensation salvage with preliminary measurements from the uploaded phone-camera clips. The source observation remains valuable: steam condensing on a lid creates a dense breath-figure field whose growth, merging, and sudden visual changes can be recorded with ordinary equipment. The revised result is classical and deliberately bounded. A direct spectral check finds no peak at the claimed 7.83 Hz Schumann band; the activity spectrum is dominated by slow drift and stochastic texture change. A steadier clip shows an approximately constant localized-change rate with no dominant frequency, i.e. a rate rather than a clock. A clean patch from the original footage gives a provisional dominant-scale growth exponent near one half, consistent with diffusion-like coarsening, while droplet count remains roughly flat because re-nucleation fills gaps. A second buildup clip shows a monotone coverage proxy increase, but absolute area fraction and self-similar distribution collapse remain unmeasured. The surviving claim is therefore not quantized resonance. It is a reproducible, low-cost protocol for measuring classical breath-figure coarsening and coalescence statistics.

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