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    Surface tension is a physical force that occurs at the molecular level of water. It is caused by the cohesion between water molecules, as water molecules are attracted to each other and try to minimize their surface area. This results in water surfaces acting like an elastic skin. Some effects of surface tension include small objects floating on water even if denser than water, water droplets forming a spherical shape, and insects walking on water surfaces.

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    Surface tension is a physical force that occurs at the molecular level of water. It is caused by the cohesion between water molecules, as water molecules are attracted to each other and try to minimize their surface area. This results in water surfaces acting like an elastic skin. Some effects of surface tension include small objects floating on water even if denser than water, water droplets forming a spherical shape, and insects walking on water surfaces.

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    Surface tension is a physical force that occurs at the molecular level of water. It is caused by the cohesion between water molecules, as water molecules are attracted to each other and try to minimize their surface area. This results in water surfaces acting like an elastic skin. Some effects of surface tension include small objects floating on water even if denser than water, water droplets forming a spherical shape, and insects walking on water surfaces.

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    Surface Tension

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    Surface tension is a physical force that occurs at the molecular level of water. It is caused by the cohesion between water molecules, as water molecules are attracted to each other and try to minimize their surface area. This results in water surfaces acting like an elastic skin. Some effects of surface tension include small objects floating on water even if denser than water, water droplets forming a spherical shape, and insects walking on water surfaces.

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    Surface tension Mrs Chinta

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    To explain surface tension as a Identify surface tension as a water


    physical force force
    Describe what happens at an atomic
    level
    Demonstrate surface tension
    Water!
    What do you
    already know?
    Water
    Brainstorm!
    What do we use it for, what can it do, what can’t it do, what is the chemistry behind the matter in
    water?
    Understanding
    surface
    tension
    Where we see surface tension
    What is Surface Tension? | Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds | Earth Lab
    What is surface tension?
    Surface tension is an effect where the surface of a liquid is strong.
    Surface tension is a force that occurs as water molecules try to pull
    themselves together to have the smallest surface area possible.
    Some small things can float on a surface because of surface
    tension, even though they normally could not float.
    Some insects (e.g. water striders) can run on the surface of water
    because of this.
    Surface tension influences shape

    Surface Tension - Why are drops spherical? | #aumsum #kids #science #education #children
    Causes of
    surface
    tension
    Words to know
    Cohesion
    🢝An attraction between molecules of the same substance
    🢝E.g. water and water
    Adhesion
    🢝An attraction between molecules of different substances
    🢝E.g. water and the window (dew or rain drops)
    Surface tension with water
    Water is made of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen, making H2O.

    - The hydrogen atoms have a small positive charge


    - The oxygen atoms have a small negative charge
    Will this make them attract or repel each other?

    H H
    Causes of surface tension
    Surface tension is caused by the molecules in the liquid
    being attracted to each other (cohesion), and is
    responsible for many of the behaviors of liquids.
    In the bulk of the liquid, each molecule is pulled equally
    in every direction by neighboring liquid molecules,
    resulting in a net force of zero.
    The molecules at the surface do not have other molecules
    on all sides of them and therefore are pulled inwards.
    This creates some internal pressure and forces liquid
    surfaces to contract to the minimal area.
    Water likes water

    Water likes to stick with water, it will even follow water!


    Effects of surface tension in everyday
    life
    Surface tension is responsible for the shape of
    liquid droplets. Although easily deformed,
    droplets of water tend to be pulled into a spherical
    shape by the cohesive forces of the surface layer.
    In the absence of other forces, including gravity,
    drops of virtually all liquids would be perfectly
    spherical. Because a sphere is a shape that
    minimises the surface area for a given volume.
    Effects of surface tension in everyday
    life
    Cohesion from the water molecules on water’s surface cause
    the surface to behave like an elastic skin.
    Objects denser than water still float when the object is
    nonwettable and its weight is small enough to be borne by
    the forces arising from surface tension.
    For example, water striders use surface tension to walk on
    the surface of a pond. The surface of the water behaves like
    an elastic film: the insect's feet cause indentations in the
    water's surface, increasing its surface area.
    Practice what you know
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