Surface tension
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Surface tension is the tendency of liquid surfaces to shrink into the minimum surface area possible. Surface tension allows insects (e.g. water striders), usually denser than water, to float and slide on a water surface.
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See also
- Anti-fog
- Capillary wave — short waves on a water surface, governed by surface tension and inertia
- Cheerio effect — the tendency for small wettable floating objects to attract one another.
- Cohesion
- Dimensionless numbers
- Dortmund Data Bank — contains experimental temperature-dependent surface tensions
- Electrodipping force
- Electrowetting
- Electrocapillarity
- Eötvös rule — a rule for predicting surface tension dependent on temperature
- Fluid pipe
- Hydrostatic equilibrium—the effect of gravity pulling matter into a round shape
- Interface (chemistry)
- Meniscus — surface curvature formed by a liquid in a container
- Mercury beating heart — a consequence of inhomogeneous surface tension
- Microfluidics
- Sessile drop technique
- Sow-Hsin Chen
- Specific surface energy — same as surface tension in isotropic materials.
- Spinning drop method
- Stalagmometric method
- Surface pressure
- Surface science
- Surface tension biomimetics
- Surface tension values
- Surfactants — substances which reduce surface tension.
- Szyszkowski equation — Calculating surface tension of aqueous solutions
- Tears of wine — the surface tension induced phenomenon seen on the sides of glasses containing alcoholic beverages.
- Tolman length — leading term in correcting the surface tension for curved surfaces.
- Wetting and dewetting
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