capillary attraction

The smaller the hole, the harder it holds onto the water by "capillary attraction".

It has nothing to do with the strong capillary attraction of the narrow inside of the tube.

According to Nikolaides, the electrostatic force engenders a long range capillary attraction.

Even the fact that electric field pulls metal sheets closer together could attract water by causing increased capillary attraction.

Capillary attraction is a natural phenomenon.

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The Wamphyri use capillary attraction to lift water from their wells to the tops of their aeries.

Colourants used in printing contain dyes thickened to prevent the colour from spreading by capillary attraction beyond the limits of the pattern or design.

Making an unmeltable fibrous wick with capillary attraction for wax (i.e., a string) is the heart of the invention.

Albert Einstein's first paper submitted in 1900 to Annalen der Physik was on capillary attraction.

Imbibition is the tendency of granular rock to imbibe a fluid under the force of capillary attraction, in the absence of any pressure.

Having smaller pores, the fine paper has stronger capillary attraction, needed to pull some of the liquid part away from the solid parts it is already wetted to.

On the other hand, the tip may persistently keep itself plugged with liquid by capillary attraction; then tip-down might be slightly better in the finishing stages of draining.

The lead melts and oxidises to lead oxide, which in turn melts and is drawn into the pores of the cupel by capillary attraction.

They appear, like huge sponges, to hold the rain and dew which fall on them, and which, by capillary attraction, are prevented from mingling with the surrounding brine.

Hydrometers, an aerometer, a hydrostatic bellows, a balance and steam pump, several table-top fountains all were used to look into hydrostatic pressure, and capillary attraction.

You see it's a ball point and the ball rotates, picking up, by capillary attraction some ink from a lozenge of solid ink that is under the ball."

Mr. Ghosh set out to show that any liquid, including milk, can be made to rise from a spoon through the porous ceramics used for the idols through capillary attraction.

In principle, whichever liquid has the strongest wetting force (surface tension, capillary attraction, wetting angle, etc.) will try to be the one that stays behind in the stocking.

Once some wax vaporizes out of the wick, capillary attraction pulls more liquid wax up from the melted pool below, so the wick always stays "wet" with melted wax and keeps on operating.

While some similar forces are at work here, it is different from capillary attraction, a process where glass or other "solid" substances attract water, but are not changed in the process (for example, water molecules becoming suspended between the glass molecules).

From there, Mr. Wick, the photographer of the "I Spy" book series, abandons the idea of following one drop and gets down instead to more scientifically organized water concepts - surface tension, capillary attraction, diffusion, condensation, evaporation, refraction and the earth's water cycle.

As bovine muscle he existed long ago in the food which nourished his parents; still farther back he was eaten by an ox in the form of some succulent weed of the pasture, and that very weed educed him from the soil through microscopic tubes by capillary attraction.