Old 09-20-2013, 08:20 AM
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Vridar
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Another way to demonstrate surface tension. Dish soap will do the same but makes bubbles. More recent surfactants don't suds. They don't need to. Lather up a dish pan or such and drop a little cationic surfactant such as hair conditioner or Cepacol in it and the bubbles disappear. I did not know WD 40 was essentially an oil based surfactant.
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