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elastic
water strider
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stretched
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marangoni effect
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meniscus
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capillarity
Definitions:
Noun
surface tension
Definition: a phenomenon at the surface of a liquid caused by intermolecular forces
Definition: the effect on the surface of a liquid that makes it behave as a stretched elastic membrane; it is caused by unbalanced intermolecular forces