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  2. Surface tension - Wikipedia

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    Surface tension is the tendency of liquid surfaces at rest to shrink into the minimum surface area possible. Surface tension is what allows objects with a higher density than water such as razor blades and insects (e.g. water striders) to float on a water surface without becoming even partly submerged.

  3. Surface-tension values - Wikipedia

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    This is a table of surface tension values [1] for some interfaces at the indicated temperatures. Note that the SI units millinewtons per meter (mN·m −1) are equivalent to the cgs units dynes per centimetre (dyn·cm −1).

  4. Eötvös rule - Wikipedia

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    This assumption is approximately fulfilled for most known liquids. When plotting the surface tension versus the temperature a fairly straight line can be seen which has a surface tension of zero at the critical temperature. The Eötvös rule also gives a relation of the surface tension behaviour of different liquids in respect to each other: 2.

  5. Properties of water - Wikipedia

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    Surface tension prevents the clip from submerging and the water from overflowing the glass edges. Temperature dependence of the surface tension of pure water. Water has an unusually high surface tension of 71.99 mN/m at 25 °C [64] which is caused by the strength of the hydrogen bonding between water molecules. [65] This allows insects to walk ...

  6. Zisman Plot - Wikipedia

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    The data of the liquids given from the table above is then graphed on the Zisman Plot (Figure 2) with the independent variable as the surface tension of the liquid in dynes/cm and the dependent variable as 1-cos(θ SL). There also are different variations of the Zisman plot since the Y-axis is unitless as seen in Table 1 and as mentioned above.

  7. Capillary length - Wikipedia

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    The capillary length will vary for different liquids and different conditions. Here is a picture of a water droplet on a lotus leaf. If the temperature is 20 o then = 2.71mm . The capillary length or capillary constant is a length scaling factor that relates gravity and surface tension.

  8. Meniscus (liquid) - Wikipedia

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    When a tube of a narrow bore, often called a capillary tube, is dipped into a liquid and the liquid wets the tube (with zero contact angle), the liquid surface inside the tube forms a concave meniscus, which is a virtually spherical surface having the same radius, r, as the inside of the tube. The tube experiences a downward force of magnitude ...

  9. Du Noüy ring method - Wikipedia

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    A classical torsion wire-based du Noüy ring tensiometer. The arrow on the left points to the ring itself. The most common correction factors include Zuidema–Waters correction factors (for liquids with low interfacial tension), Huh–Mason correction factors (which cover a wider range than Zuidema–Waters), and Harkins–Jordan correction factors (more precise than Huh–Mason, while still ...