Fluid Density Separation

I was making a batch of iced tea, and was pretty amused by what happened to it. I first heated the water, dumped in a tablespoon of sugar without stirring it, and steeped the tea for five minutes. I came back to this:



I found it rather amusing that the sugar all dissolved, but stayed saturated at the bottom of the jar, segregating itself from the tea above it.

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