Science > Physics > Surface Tension > Capillary Action A capillary tube is a tube with a very fine bore. The phenomenon of a rise and fall of a liquid inside a capillary tube when it is dipped in the liquid is called capillary action or capillarity. When a glass capillary is immersed in water, […]
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Capillary Action or Capillarity
- Post author By Hemant More
- Post date November 21, 2019
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- Tags Adhesion, Adhesive force, Angle of contact, Capillarity, Capillary, Capillary action, Capillary tube, Cohesion, Cohesive force, Concave meniscus, Convex meniscus, Liquid drop, Range of molecular attraction, Soap bubble, Sphere of molecular influence, Spherical membrane, Surface Energy, Surface tension