capillarity
Noun
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Noun
capillarity
- The interaction between the surfaces of a solid and liquid in contact that distorts the normal geometry of the liquid surface; especially the rise or fall of a liquid in a fine tube.
- 1856 William Somerville Orr - Orr's Circle of the Sciences
- Hence the allowance to be made for diminution of the height of a mercurial column, owing to capillarity, is determined by two considerations — the diameter of the tube and versed sine of the corresponding meniscus.
- 1856 William Somerville Orr - Orr's Circle of the Sciences
- Italian: capillarità
- Spanish: capilaridad
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