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Surface tension

Surface tension is the energy per unit area due to having a surface in a liquid. It has the dimension of force per unit length, or energy per unit area. The two are equivalent, but when referring to energy per unit of area, it is common to use the term surface energy, which is a more general term in the sense that it applies also to solids. Surface…

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Surface tension

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Surface tension

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measured by · 28
Surface tension → After, An, Because, Bubble, Capillary, Drop, Drop-bounce, Du Noüy, For, Further, Geometry, Jaeger's, Liquid, Maximum, Padday, Pendant, Resonant, Sessile, Spinning, Stalagmometric
related to External links · 28
Surface tension → Audio, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Br, Ca2, Cl, CO2, Interface Free Energy, Interfacial Tension, Laboratory, Mg2, Na, National High Magnetic Field, New, NH, NO, OH, Pfister, Philosophical Magazine, Physics Stack Exchange, Proctor Hall
related to Further reading · 25
Surface tension → AgCl, American Journal, Andreotti, Antonin, Berry, Bibcode, Bruno, Chemical Thermodynamics, CSCL, Jacco, Joost, Marchand, Mariana, Physics, Physics Education, RBCL, S0021-9614, Snoeijer, Sternberg, Surface
related to Water · 15
Surface tension → Beading, Flotation, For, Formation, Gravity, If, It, Its, Separation, Several, Surface, Tears, The, This, Water
related to Liquid in a vertical tube · 13
Surface tension → Again, An, But, If, In, Mercury, Notice, So, Such, That, The, Torricelli's, We
related to Surface curvature and pressure · 10
Surface tension → But, Delta, If, In, Laplace, Rx, Ry, The, When, Young
related to Breakup of streams into drops · 9
Surface tension → Among, If, In, Plateau, Rayleigh, The, These, This, Whether
related to Floating objects · 8
Surface tension → As, Fs, Fw, If, Leftrightarrow, Notice, The, When
related to Surfactants · 8
Surface tension → Bubbles, Emulsions, Marangoni, Soap, Surface, Surfactants, The, Tiny
related to Contact angles · 7
Surface tension → And, If, Note, Surface, Tension, The, Where

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