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by garof 1655 days ago
I'm not sure of the experiment that this might be referring to, but it sounds like superheating[0]. Trapping the drop of water between two other liquids could be some version of a "clean container, free of nucleation sites" as described in the first paragraph of the wikipedia article. Other ideas?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheating