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It’s the little things (lemy.lol)
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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Technically even without surface tension, the microscopically small deviations in elevation in your floor, combined with evaporation and absorption would actually mean you would have a dry floor almost immediately.

Surface tension is just one aspect of the molecular bonds that cause water to accumulate, and if there were no surface tension that would mean those bonds would have to be nonexistent and thus water would not be able to condense into a liquid in the first place.

nerd

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Ok, nerd....

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

you can have liquids with low surface tension that don't evaporate immediately (water + soap)

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