{"id":115,"date":"2023-02-21T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T07:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2023-01-02T11:32:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T10:32:50","slug":"why-the-drop-remains-a-drop-the-surface-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/2023\/02\/21\/why-the-drop-remains-a-drop-the-surface-tension\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the drop remains a drop &#8211; the surface tension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The surface of a liquid can be compared to a stretched, elastic film. Liquids, including liquid hot-melt adhesives, strive to keep their surface area small through the molecular forces that occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/drop-of-water-gd7c5be241_1920-1024x581.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/drop-of-water-gd7c5be241_1920-1024x581.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/drop-of-water-gd7c5be241_1920-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/drop-of-water-gd7c5be241_1920-768x436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/drop-of-water-gd7c5be241_1920-1536x872.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/drop-of-water-gd7c5be241_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/en\/service-en\/glossary\/surface-tension\">You can find out more about surface tension i our glossary.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As the sphere has the smallest surface area in three-dimensional space, drops are formed. \u00a0Thus, the liquid has the smallest interface to the surrounding gas (for example, the room air).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adhesive knowledge made easy \u2013 Technical term \u2013 Tuesday today with the term surface tension<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,25,24],"tags":[22,27],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adhesives","category-glossary","category-technical-term-tuesday","tag-22","tag-glossary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/blog-teaser-en.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buehnen.de\/international\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}