Surface tension by goodoleboy
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Your once in a blue moon science lesson, captured back on 10/13/07.
Beading of rain water on a waxy surface, such as a leaf, will create surface tension. Water adheres weakly to wax and strongly to itself, so water clusters into drops. Surface tension gives them their near-spherical shape, because a sphere has the smallest possible surface area to volume ratio.
Comments (9)
starship64
Beatufiul capture.
miwi
Klasse shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
alida
fantastic picture
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Wolfenshire Online Now!
This is a cool capture.
Faemike55
Great capture and refresher course of fluid dynamics
helanker
OH How beautiful. A rare sight in your area, I know.
RodS
Wonderful closeup shot!
anahata.c
great description of the surface tension of water. Like Helle says, this sight wouldn't be nearly as common today. Great shots of the water drops---and a few are stark white. Their contrast with the broad hard lives is striking, as is the red trim around the leaves and on the stems. Love how you captured these leaves 'glued' to those hard waxy surfaces...