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What does surface tension mean?

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Noun
  1. (physics) the effect on the surface of a liquid that makes it behave as a stretched elastic membrane; it is caused by unbalanced intermolecular forces
  2. (physics) a measure of this effect
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If you dope it afterward, surface tension takes the particles back to a spherical shape.
The surface tension of water is increased, and even the density of air surrounding the Earth ebbs and flows like the tides in the sea.
The metal's surface tension is great enough to permit a steel needle to be floated on its surface.
Combined treatment has the added bonus of smaller particle size, more globularity, and lesser surface tension.
The setup is currently upgraded by the simultaneous measurement of the surface tension of the interface.
Engineers then deposit monolayers of indium arsenide, with a much larger lattice, which leads to surface tension.

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