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Unread 02-20-2003, 11:18 AM   #8
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Default Re: Surfactants: making the water "wetter"

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Originally posted by bigben2k
water (pure) tends to "bead up"
That was exactly my point when we were talking about sandblasted surfaces and feature size. I'm convince there's a minimal feature size dictated by the fluid surface tension. Under that size, features will only help thickening the laminar layer in the fluid.
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