Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The effect on the surface of a liquid that makes it behave as a stretched elastic membrane; it is caused by unbalanced intermolecular forces

    Oberflächenspannung

    пове́рхностное натяже́ниеpovérxnostnoje natjažénije

    поверхне́вий на́тягpoverxnévyj nátjah

    a phenomenon at the surface of a liquid caused by intermolecular forces

  2. (countable, uncountable)A measure of this effect

    пове́рхностное натяже́ниеpovérxnostnoje natjažénije

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
the effect on the surface of a liquid:
Русский
By meaning 1
the effect on the surface of a liquid:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the effect on the surface of a liquid:

Forms

plural: surface tensions
Singularsurface tension
Pluralsurface tensions

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedsurfactant

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