Australian English Meaning of surface tension
Surface tension
Other Australian English words related to Surface tension
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Nearest Words of surface tension
- surface soil => Topsoil
- surface ship => Surface ship
- surface search radar => Surface search radar
- surface noise => Surface noise
- surface mine => open cut mine
- surface mail => surface mail
- surface loading => Surface loading
- surface lift => Surface lift
- surface gauge => Surface gauge
- surface gage => Surface gauge
- surface-active => Surface-active
- surface-active agent => Surfactant
- surface-assimilative => surface-assimilative
- surface-mine => surface mine
- surface-to-air => Surface-to-air
- surface-to-air missile => Surface-to-air missile
- surface-to-air missile system => Surface-to-air missile system
- surfacing => surfacing
- surfactant => surfactant
- surfbird => surfbird
Definitions and Meaning of surface tension in English
surface tension (n)
a phenomenon at the surface of a liquid caused by intermolecular forces
surface tension ()
That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth of a millimeter, is considered to equal the radius of the sphere of molecular action, that is, the greatest distance at which there is cohesion between two particles. Particles lying below this film, being equally acted on from all sides, are in equilibrium as to forces of cohesion, but those in the film are on the whole attracted inward, and tension results.
FAQs About the word surface tension
Surface tension
a phenomenon at the surface of a liquid caused by intermolecular forcesThat property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids a
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surface soil => Topsoil, surface ship => Surface ship, surface search radar => Surface search radar, surface noise => Surface noise, surface mine => open cut mine,
