📚 noun • entry_id 42473
capillarity
Meanings (ES + gloss)
absorbencia • absorbimiento • absorción • alejamiento • capilaridad
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.
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 s…
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