Friday, July 12, 2019

Adhesion Cohesion Lens-hesion

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This seems to beg for further investigation using different liquids. Cooking oil? Corn syrup?  The interplay of adhesion and cohesion is central here.

It's fun to think about the extremes:

1. How would this have turned out if the liquid had maximum cohesion and minimal adhesion?

2. How would this have turned out if the liquid had minimal cohesion and maximum adhesion?

There are more questions that might be nice, too. If you think of a question (or a liquid), drop it into the comments.

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