1) Liquid property 2) Science fiction short story 3) Short story by James Blish 4) Underwater novel
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The work required to expand the surface of a liquid by unit area.
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The natural tendency of the surface of water (and other liquids) to behave like an elastic sheet. It is caused by forces acting between the water molecules: the molecules at the surface are much more strongly attracted to each other, and to the molecules below them, than they are to the molecules of air above them.
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• 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 gr......
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property of a liquid surface displayed by its acting as if it were a stretched elastic membrane. This phenomenon can be observed in the nearly ... [5 related articles]
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The energy required to disrupt the surface of a liquid.
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(gamma); the force F per unit length L that acts across any line in a surface, tending to pull the surface closed.
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Surface tension effects allow adapted insects to 'skate' on the surface of a pond, or a needle to be 'floated' in a cup of water. The force existing in any boundary surface of a liquid such that the surface tends to assume a minimum possible area. It is defined as the force perpendicular to a li...
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It is the force in dynes acting along the surface of the liquid 1cm in length and perpendicular to it.
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The expression of intermolecular attraction at the surface of a liquid, in contact with air or another gas, a solid, or another immiscible liquid, tending to pull the molecules of the liquid inward from the surface; dimensional formula: mt-2. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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tension or resistance that acts to preserve the integrity of a surface.
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Surface property of a liquid causing it to act as an elastic enveloping membrane. This causes droplets to form spheres in flight. When the drop impacts it spreads, when that kinetic energy is expended the surface tension draws the droplet margins back. Materials which reduce surface tension thus increase spreading and because they decrease the cohesion between surface molecules compared with pure water smaller droplets are produced at the nozzle....
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Sur'face ten'sion (Physics) 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...
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(γ, σ) Type: Term Definitions: 1. the expression of intermolecular attraction at the surface of a liquid, in contact with air or another gas, a solid, or another immiscible liquid, tending to pull the molecules of the liquid inward from the surface; dimensional formula: mt-2.
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Tension of a liquid's surface. Due to the forces of attraction between molecules.
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Surface tension is a property characteristic of liquids, by which the surface behaves as if it were covered with an elastic stretched skin. The effect is due to the fact that at the surface the attraction between the molecules of the liquid is unbalanced, surface molecules being attracted towards the body of the liquid, whereas in the body of the l...
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the attraction of liquid molecules to each other
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The capacity of molecules of a liquid to bind together. Water has high surface tension.
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noun a phenomenon at the surface of a liquid caused by intermolecular forces
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That property, due to molecular forces, that exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to prevent the liquid from spreading.
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Property that causes the surface of a liquid to behave as if it were covered with a weak elastic skin; this is why a needle can float on water. It is caused by the exposed surface's tendency to contract to the smallest possible area because of cohesive forces between molecules at the surface. Allied phenomena include the formation of drople...
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The force acting on the surface of a liquid, tending to minimize the area of that surface. (see RFF 705.10.03 - SURFACE TENSION).
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the attraction of molecules to each other on a liquid's surface. Thus, a barrier is created between the air and the liquid.
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A fluid in contact with a surface exhibits phenomena, due to molecular attractions, which appears to arise from a tension in the surface of the fluid. It may be expressed as dynes per centimeter or as ergs per square centimeter.
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the elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, esp. a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
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