If y'all have worked with silicone oil, yea it works kinda like this (depending on viscosity).
It creeps up out of containers, it creeps up walls. It gets everywhere.
93nods like sand
33I swear that shit must have negative surface tension with how much it gets everywhere
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A two micrometer thick layer of water would evaporate nearly instantaneously, I’d think.
92Without surface tension, water would evaporate much faster in general. Probably could set out a cup of water in the morning and it would be gone by bedtime.
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57Your own body would basically be a fog cloud of evaporation all day until you were dehydrated like a skeleton in a salt flat, which is exactly what you would be, since no life anywhere could exist.
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Especially if there were weaker intermolecular forces (which normally give it surface tension).
14You could even mop it up by placing the mop in the middle of the room and just wait.
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Look at this guy bragging about his level floors. Smh
69Hmm i think that would actually be better as the water where basically non existent caus it's so spread out. It would just instantly evaporate no?
53Basic gas mechanics or whatever that's called is now out the window. You are breathing raccoon pee.
25Yum
3Well this post was only about water
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If water didn't have surface tension, none of us would exist 😹
33yes plz
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Doesn't alcohol (like isopropol) have like zero surface tension? I know it evaporates super fast which is one of the factors that makes it a good cleaning agent.
31That's actually exactly why it's a bad cleaning agent, at least for sterilization purposes. It evaporates before it can kill any microbes.
23This is almost completely unrelated, but your comment made me think of it for some reason, so story time:
Years ago, I worked at a gas station on the night shift. We had these huge wall mounted containers of cleaning supplies, like soap dispensers in a rest room, but like 30 gallons/100 liters, and full of various cleaning supplies that a company came by every so often and swapped the empties for full ones. There were like 5 of em, for use in cleaning different stuff.
One day, they came and swapped em out, and no one noticed that they'd all been replaced with rubbing alcohol until it was already after end of day for the delivery company. It took weeks before we could get them to come back out, and for several weeks I had to mop the floors and clean the whole store with diluted alcohol. It was sparkling clean, but good GOD the head rush. I had to leave the doors open and blast the AC whenever we were cleaning.
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Thank god toddler pee has surface tension.
30I just spilled my water bottle while in a tent and it feels much more like the latter in this example
30I don't like smart meatwad. He's giving me existential dread.
27This is sending my brain down a rabbit hole I don't want to explore.
17On the flip side if you drop a glass of water it will almost instantly evaporate.
14If that was how it worked it would also happen if you spilt oil or liquid soap or soapy water
11It would also evaporate pretty much instantly
17There’s also viscosity, adhesion
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Petrol is kindve like this but it evaporates so quickly. What weighs less than petrol? Is the rate something evaporates related to the weight?
8The rate at which something evaporates is determined by their atoms bond strength, weight has less importance. The reason petrol evaporates fast (and melts and boils at low temperatures) is because they only have London forces, which is the weakest weak bond.
7If you want to test it you could just seal your room, tape the windows and doors and keyholes, then let enough petrol evaporate until the air is saturated. Then you can test spilling it on the floor without fear of evaporation!
1Id love nothing more than to be sealed in a 100% condensed petrol air room haha
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water in noita be like:
2It would evaporate instantly that way, but whatever
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