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The 69 pages that link to Surface tension, each with the reason it gives.

• WaterRelated: Water’s molecular cohesion produces a strong surface tension that shapes droplets and interfaces.

• AdsorptionRelated: Adsorption can alter interfacial composition and thereby change surface tension.

• HydrodynamicsRelated: It shapes small-scale flows, droplets, bubbles, and liquid interfaces.

• Capillary actionRelated: It creates the curved meniscus and pressure difference that drive liquid movement.

• NucleationRelated: Creating a nucleus costs interfacial energy, especially when the cluster is small.

• Intermolecular forceRelated: Unequal cohesive forces at a liquid surface generate this measurable effect.

• Van der Waals forceRelated: Van der Waals cohesion contributes to the attraction between molecules at liquid surfaces.

• SoapRelated: Soap lowers water’s surface tension, helping it spread across surfaces.

• London dispersion forceRelated: Dispersion contributes to cohesion at liquid surfaces, especially in nonpolar substances.

• Contact angleRelated: The liquid–vapor tension helps set the balance that fixes an equilibrium contact angle.

• Ostwald ripeningRelated: Reducing total interfacial area provides the thermodynamic drive for coarsening.

• HydrophobicityRelated: Surface tension influences how water droplets spread or bead on a material.

• InkRelated: Surface tension influences whether ink wets a surface or beads up.

• CohesionRelated: Cohesive attractions make liquid surfaces resist expansion.

• Surface energyRelated: For liquids, surface energy is measured through the closely related phenomenon of surface tension.

• Minimal surfaceRelated: For uniform tension, minimizing interfacial energy reduces to minimizing area.

• Young–Laplace equationRelated: It sets the proportionality between interface curvature and pressure difference.

• Critical micelle concentrationRelated: Its change with surfactant concentration often signals the approach to the CMC.

• Rayleigh–Taylor instabilityRelated: It suppresses short-wavelength disturbances in sufficiently small-scale flows.

• Dry cleaningRelated: Liquid behavior affects how cleaning fluids wet fibers and penetrate fabric.

• Fountain penRelated: It helps keep ink within the feed channels rather than spilling freely.

• Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilityRelated: At small scales, surface tension can inhibit the waves that shear would amplify.

• PancakeRelated: It helps batter droplets spread into round cakes on a hot griddle.

• Water striderRelated: It supports the insect’s weight until a leg pushes hard enough to deform the water surface.

• Carbonated waterRelated: It helps determine the energy barrier a forming carbon dioxide bubble must overcome.

• Surface feedingRelated: Small insects and other prey can become trapped or supported at the water surface by this force.

• FoamRelated: It drives liquid foam toward smaller interfacial area and eventual collapse.

• GerridaeRelated: It supports water striders’ weight without their bodies breaking through the water surface.

• Plastron respirationRelated: Surface tension helps keep water from flooding the air layer's fine spaces.

• Flux (metallurgy)Related: Flux can alter interfacial conditions that determine whether molten filler spreads.

• Liquid waterRelated: Cohesion among water molecules gives its surface unusually high tension for a small molecule.

• Float glassRelated: Surface forces help establish the glass ribbon’s smooth surfaces on the bath.

• NeustonRelated: It supports small organisms and shapes movement across the water surface.

• HalobatesRelated: Halobates uses surface tension to stand and skate on seawater without sinking.

• Leidenfrost effectRelated: Surface tension helps determine the droplet’s shape and stability while it levitates.

• NotonectidaeRelated: Backswimmers use the water surface as a platform for breathing and launching attacks.

• Cetyl alcoholRelated: In formulations, cetyl alcohol can alter interfacial behavior alongside other emulsifying ingredients.

• Plateau's lawsRelated: Equal surface tensions balance at 120° where three soap films meet.

• Square–cube lawRelated: Surface forces can dominate small objects more strongly than their bulk weight does.

• Whirligig beetleRelated: The beetle’s legs push against the water surface as it skims and turns.

• Wine glassRelated: It helps shape the wine’s curved surface as the glass is tilted and swirled.

• Bubble gumRelated: Saliva coats the bubble and influences how its thin film behaves.

• Centimetre–gram–second system of unitsRelated: Its CGS unit, dyne per centimetre, is still used in some fields.

• D'Arcy Wentworth ThompsonRelated: It helps explain why cell aggregates and other soft structures take particular shapes.

• GalinstanRelated: Surface tension shapes Galinstan droplets, while its oxide skin modifies their behavior.

• Jean TaylorRelated: It explains why physical soap films approximate area-minimizing configurations.

• Jurin's lawRelated: It pulls the meniscus into a shape that supports the liquid column.

• Rayleigh–Plesset equationRelated: It creates a pressure jump across the bubble surface that the equation includes.

• Sea surface microlayerRelated: Molecular interactions at the air–water boundary help concentrate compounds in the microlayer.

• Applications of soft matterRelated: Interfacial forces shape droplets, foams, coatings, and microfluidic flows.