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2 years ago

What is the surface tension of water? of rubbing alcohol? was your prediction correct or incorrect?

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1 answer:

kompoz [17]2 years ago

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Rubbing water (isopropyl alcohol) has lesser surface tension than that water.

Water possesses a surface tension of 72 dynes/cm.

Whereas rubbing alcohol has a surface tension of 23 dynes/cm.

<h3>what is surface tension?</h3>

Surface tension is the propensity of liquid surfaces at rest to shrink to the smallest possible surface area.

Because the atoms on the outside of the molecules (often hydrogens) lack strong hydrogen bonding capabilities, most organic liquids have very low surface tensions. Because isopropanol contains just 28%, OH and the remainder is CH or CH3, the linkages that hold a droplet together are few and far between.

The only substance with a higher surface tension than water is liquid mercury (450 dyne/cm).

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