capillarity

Examples

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• The overall trend on the free-surface side of capillarity research has been a shift from static shapes to the dynamics of free-surface flows, breakup, and fragmentation.

  Academic text (2006)

• Capillarity causes capillarity to rise in a thin tube, allowing plants to absorb moisture from the soil.

• The two works also emphasize quite different aspects of capillarity, which provide the general division of this article:

  Academic text (2006)

• Capillarity is a manifestation of the cohesion of matter due to strong, short-ranged forces between adjacent particles.

  Academic text (2006)

• An obvious manifestation of capillarity is the formation of drops from the rupture of liquid threads, ligaments, and jets, as illustrated in figure 5.

  Academic text (2006)

• Several studies have demonstrated the efficacy of LLLT in accelerating the healing process, the promotion of analgesia, and an increase in microcirculation and capillarity (5, 6, 11).

  Academic text (2015)

• Two centuries after seminal work by Pierre-Simon Laplace and Thomas Young, capillarity's modern applications arise in fields ranging from biology and oceanography to propulsion, materials science, and novel devices.

  Academic text (2006)

• The phenomenon of capillarity can be observed when a paper towel dips into water and absorbs it quickly.

Synonyms

C

capillary action

vscapillarity

• Specialized

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Movement of liquid up thin tubes or spaces, like water rising in a plant stem

expresses the property that lets liquid rise or fall in thin tubes

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology