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English
Etymology
From French capillarité.
Noun
capillarity (countable and uncountable, plural capillarities)
- The interaction between the surfaces of a solid and liquid in contact that distorts the normal geometry of the liquid surface; especially the rise or fall of a liquid in a fine tube.
1856, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences:Hence the allowance to be made for diminution of the height of a mercurial column, owing to capillarity, is determined by two considerations — the diameter of the tube and versed sine of the corresponding meniscus.
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interaction between the surface of a solid and liquid
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