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Liquids, Solids, and Intermolecular Forces
How Liquids Behave on Surfaces
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Liquids behave in different ways on surfaces because of surface tension, adhesive forces, capillary action, and viscosity. These properties help explain why some liquids bead up, some spread out, and some flow more easily than others.
Surface tension comes from cohesive forces, which are the attr...
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Ever wondered why a yen coin, when carefully placed on water, floats?
Most properties of liquids are dictated by intermolecular forces. The attractive forces between similar molecules in a substance are called cohesive forces.
In water, the cohesive forces pull interior molecules equally in all directions, resulting in zero net fo...
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