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Definition of Surface tension

1. Noun. A phenomenon at the surface of a liquid caused by intermolecular forces.

Definition of Surface tension

1. Noun. (physics) the effect on the surface of a liquid that makes it behave as a stretched elastic membrane; it is caused by unbalanced intermolecular forces ¹

2. Noun. (physics) a measure of this effect ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Surface Tension

Literary usage of Surface tension

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1907)
"SURFACE-TENSION OF LIQUIDS Surface-tension. Method of Measuring. — While gases tend to expand and increase their volume, the surface of a liquid tends to ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"When this heat is taken into account it appears that the surface energy differs from the surface tension by a quantity equal to the product of the absolute ..."

3. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"surface tension, in fact, is the intensity factor of a kind of energy whose ... The length of the arc, and therefore the total amount of surface tension, ..."

4. Scientific Papers by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1902)
"Camphor Movements a Test of Surface-Tension. The theory of these movements, due to Van der Mensbrugghe, implies that they will take place with greater or ..."

5. Applied Colloid Chemistry: General Theory by Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1921)
"Most salts increase the surface tension of the solution, the increase being ... The strong bases increase the surface tension but ammonia lowers it and so ..."

6. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1907)
"SURFACE-TENSION OF LIQUIDS Surface-tension. Method of Measuring. — While gases tend to expand and increase their volume, the surface of a liquid tends to ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"When this heat is taken into account it appears that the surface energy differs from the surface tension by a quantity equal to the product of the absolute ..."

8. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"surface tension, in fact, is the intensity factor of a kind of energy whose ... The length of the arc, and therefore the total amount of surface tension, ..."

9. Scientific Papers by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1902)
"Camphor Movements a Test of Surface-Tension. The theory of these movements, due to Van der Mensbrugghe, implies that they will take place with greater or ..."

10. Applied Colloid Chemistry: General Theory by Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1921)
"Most salts increase the surface tension of the solution, the increase being ... The strong bases increase the surface tension but ammonia lowers it and so ..."

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