surface tensionin a sentence
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Surface tension permits the water strider to walk on the surface of water.
surface tension = a water/air boundary created by the attractive forces between water molecules
- Evaporation is slowed by surface tension.
- Nothing but surface tension holding me in place.† (source)
- As long as the conversation was limited to vectors, surface tension, and fluid mechanics, my father was Fred Astaire with words.† (source)
- He had a tightrope walker's feel for the land beneath him-its surface tension, the give and take of things.† (source)
- As a gas it exhibits surface tension and viscosity, like mercury.† (source)
- Lemry gazes toward the side wall, and I see surface tension holding a tear.† (source)
- So much he knew about water, about its freezing, its surface tension, its turbulence and flow; he once explained to her about eddies, and how they broke away in certain alternating patterns as they drifted downstream.† (source)
- It was those impurities, not the basic process, which caused an unexpectedly low surface tension for its temperature.† (source)
- The surface tension of even highly heated iron is just too high.† (source)
- She filled the pan very carefully, so full that the water bulged slightly above the rim, kept from spilling by its surface tension.† (source)