Decode water condensation and surface tension

https://www.decodedscience.org/as-condensation-droplets-form-and-combine-what-forces-are-at-work/61585

Newly created air water interface has a higher surface tension?

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-dynamic-surface-tension.html

Newly created air water interface has a higher surface tension than the equilibrium of 72.75 mN/m....making it around 90 mN/m.

Professor Bonn states that "the method of studying droplet breakup dispenses with the previous difficulties: the experimental procedure is very robust, and the associated pinch-off dynamics well understood.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-04-dynamic-surface-tension.html#jCp

Droplets burst apart when they freeze

When they freeze water droplets break apart sending ice in all directions.  This was only found with cameras that can capture this in unprecedented detail from the initial crystallization to the final explosion.... awesome right?


https://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.084101

A thousand liquid droplets

Watch and learn about evaporation, surface tension and fluid flow by watching a drop of water-alcohol mixture on a layer of sunflower oil.  It breaks into a thousand pieces..


https://physics.aps.org/articles/v10/19

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The Spirits and Surface Tension

Attached is an interesting article.  It explains why we call our alcohol that we drink and how the shimmering due its low surface tension makes it 'ghostly'.

http://www.varsity.co.uk/culture/11765

Second Liquid State???

Physicist reported in the International Journal of Nanotechnology noted that liquid water has a whole new set of properties when it hits temperatures between 40°C and 60°C. In this range, water can go into a  “crossover” phase or a second liquid state where the surface tension changes and other characteristics change....


http://futurism.com/physicists-have-discovered-a-second-state-of-liquid-water/