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The 56 pages that link to Capillary action, each with the reason it gives.

• Surface tensionRelated: Surface tension helps pull liquid through narrow tubes and porous materials.

• Intermolecular forceRelated: Cohesion between molecules competes with their adhesion to a surface.

• HydroponicsRelated: Wick-based hydroponic systems use capillary action to draw solution toward roots.

• WettingRelated: Wetting forces draw liquid into or repel it from narrow pores and tubes.

• MicrofluidicsRelated: Surface forces can drive or resist fluid movement in small channels.

• HydrationRelated: Capillary action draws water into narrow pores during material wetting.

• SalinizationRelated: It carries saline groundwater toward the soil surface.

• SolderingRelated: In close-fitting joints, it draws molten solder into the gap.

• InfiltrationRelated: Capillary forces pull water into small soil pores, especially when soil is dry.

• InkRelated: Capillary action draws ink through fountain-pen feeds and into paper fibers.

• CohesionRelated: Cohesion helps transmit motion through a liquid column, alongside adhesion to the surrounding surface.

• AbsorptionRelated: It can carry liquid into porous materials, enabling later uptake into their bulk.

• Surface energyRelated: Surface-energy balance drives liquid rise or depression in narrow tubes and pores.

• MudbrickRelated: It can draw ground moisture upward into porous mudbrick walls.

• BrazingRelated: It draws molten filler into the narrow clearance between brazed components.

• Container gardeningRelated: Wicking systems use capillary action to draw water from a reservoir into growing medium.

• Young–Laplace equationRelated: Curvature in a capillary meniscus sets the pressure difference driving liquid motion.

• Soil waterRelated: It helps explain how water moves through small soil pores, sometimes against gravity.

• Fountain penRelated: It helps draw ink through the feed toward the nib.

• Salt weatheringRelated: Capillary flow carries dissolved salts into stone and toward evaporation zones.

• CandleRelated: It pulls liquid wax through the candle’s porous wick.

• Ballpoint penRelated: Narrow passages around the tip help ink reach the ball without a pump.

• SolderRelated: It draws molten solder into close-fitting joints, including plated through-holes.

• Liquid waterRelated: Water’s interactions with surfaces and itself help move it through soil and plant tissues.

• Space manufacturingRelated: Surface tension can guide fluids when gravity-driven settling is weak.

• Thin-layer chromatographyRelated: It draws the developing solvent through the porous layer without a pump.

• Rammed earthRelated: It explains how ground moisture can rise into an unprotected earthen wall.

• Wet wipeRelated: Capillary spaces between fibers draw in and hold the wipe's liquid.

• Writing instrumentRelated: It helps feed ink through some pen tips and reservoirs.

• Paper towelRelated: Narrow gaps between fibers draw spilled liquid into the sheet.

• Facial tissueRelated: Small spaces among tissue fibers draw liquid into the sheet.

• John J. LoudRelated: Ink delivery in pen designs depends on controlling liquid flow through small passages.

• László BíróRelated: Ink must reach the ball and its narrow socket without uncontrolled dripping.

• Salt flatRelated: Capillary rise can bring mineral-rich groundwater to the surface for evaporation.

• Thorny devilRelated: Channels between its scales can draw water toward its mouth from wet surfaces.

• Marker penRelated: It draws ink from the reservoir through the porous tip.

• NanofluidicsRelated: It links nanoscale channel geometry to pressure, wetting, and spontaneous flow.

• Tree frogRelated: Thin fluid layers can contribute to toe-pad contact, though adhesion involves several mechanisms.

• BryologyRelated: Many mosses move water externally through tightly packed leaves and shoots by capillary forces.

• Liquation (metallurgy)Related: Molten metal can drain through pores in a solid charge by capillary forces.

• Microfluidic deviceRelated: Surface forces can move fluid through narrow channels without pumps.

• Sand art and playRelated: Water bridges between grains, helping damp sand hold shapes.

• Soil salinity controlRelated: Capillary rise can bring saline groundwater upward into crop roots and the soil surface.

• Stalagmometric methodRelated: The capillary’s geometry and wetting influence how drops form and detach.

• Stephen HalesRelated: Hales invoked capillary forces to explain water movement through plants.

• TowelRelated: Small spaces between towel fibers help draw water away from a wet surface.

• VeliidaeRelated: Some veliids use surface-generated forces to propel themselves through water or along its boundary.