napięcie powierzchniowe — meaning in English
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English meaning
- surface tension noun The force that makes the surface of a liquid behave like a stretched elastic skin, caused by the molecules at the surface pulling more strongly on each other than on the air above.
Senses
napięcie powierzchniowe is used for these senses in English:
- surface tension (physics) the effect on the surface of a liquid that makes it behave as a stretched elastic membrane; it is caused by unbalanced intermolecular forces