Surface Tension
Topic:COHESION AND ADHESION
Content: Cohesion (n. lat. cohaerere "stick or stay together") or cohesive attraction or cohesive force is a physical property of a substance, caused by the intermolecular attraction between like-molecules within a body or substance that acts to unite them.
Water, for example, is strongly cohesive as each molecule may make four hydrogen bonds to other water molecules in a tetrahedral configuration. This results in a relatively strong Coulomb force between molecules. Van der Waals gases such as methane, however, have weak cohesion due only to Van der Waals forces that operate by induced polarity in non-polar molecules.
Cohesion, along with adhesion (attraction between unlike molecules), helps explain phenomena such as meniscus, surface tension and capillary action.
Mercury in a glass flask is a good example of the effects of the ratio between cohesive and adhesive forces. Because of its high cohesion and low adhesion to the glass, mercury does not spread out to cover the bottom of the flask , and if enough is placed in the flask to cover the bottom, it exhibits a strongly convex meniscus, where the meniscus of water is concave . Mercury will not wet the glass, unlike water and many other liquids ,[1] and if the glass is tipped, it will 'roll' around inside.
APPLICATIONS
Dew drops adhering to a spider web.
Cohesion causes water to form drops, surface tension
Causes them to be nearly spherical, and adhesion keeps the drops in place.
Water droplets are flatter on a Hibiscus flower which shows better adhesion.
The cohesive character of Water is clearly noticeable in space.
Mercury exhibits more cohesion than
Content: Cohesion (n. lat. cohaerere "stick or stay together") or cohesive attraction or cohesive force is a physical property of a substance, caused by the intermolecular attraction between like-molecules within a body or substance that acts to unite them.
Water, for example, is strongly cohesive as each molecule may make four hydrogen bonds to other water molecules in a tetrahedral configuration. This results in a relatively strong Coulomb force between molecules. Van der Waals gases such as methane, however, have weak cohesion due only to Van der Waals forces that operate by induced polarity in non-polar molecules.
Cohesion, along with adhesion (attraction between unlike molecules), helps explain phenomena such as meniscus, surface tension and capillary action.
Mercury in a glass flask is a good example of the effects of the ratio between cohesive and adhesive forces. Because of its high cohesion and low adhesion to the glass, mercury does not spread out to cover the bottom of the flask , and if enough is placed in the flask to cover the bottom, it exhibits a strongly convex meniscus, where the meniscus of water is concave . Mercury will not wet the glass, unlike water and many other liquids ,[1] and if the glass is tipped, it will 'roll' around inside.
APPLICATIONS
Dew drops adhering to a spider web.
Cohesion causes water to form drops, surface tension
Causes them to be nearly spherical, and adhesion keeps the drops in place.
Water droplets are flatter on a Hibiscus flower which shows better adhesion.
The cohesive character of Water is clearly noticeable in space.
Mercury exhibits more cohesion than