• @Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org
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    71 month ago

    You can try it yourself by adding a drop of dish soap to some water. Capillary action would still work and the water would evaporate long before covering the entire floor.

    • @I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org
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      31 month ago

      Capillary rise depends on surface tension, gamma. If surface tension was 0, there would be no capillary rise. Soap decreases surface tension, but it’s not 0.

      • @Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org
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        21 month ago

        Oh nevermind then. I just looked it up and came across the so-called Rollin film. I don’t know if that only appears in helium or if superfluid water would be subject to that effect as well. I wonder how that would impact its behaviour.