The oil, even a little drop, will spread out over the water surface and break up into many little blobs.
The best word to fill the blank is "saturated". Hydrocarbons with only single bonds are saturated. These hydrocarbons are the deemed to be the simplest class. They are called saturated because each carbon is bonded to as many hydrogen as possible.
Surface tension is a property of the surface of a liquid that allows it to resist an external force. It is revealed, for example,
<span>in floating of some objects on the surface of water, even though they are denser than water, and in the ability of some </span>
<span>insects (e.g. water striders) and even reptiles (basilisk) to run on the water surface. This property is caused by cohesion </span>
<span>of like molecules, and is responsible for many of the behaviors of liquids..</span>
D. Zinc metal (zn)
Zinc is a chemical element with atomic number 30.