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What is surface tension?
The property of a liquid at rest by virtue of which its free surface behaves like a streched elastic membrane and tries to occupy as small an area as possible,is called surface tension.
It may also be defined as the force of tension acting across a unit length of an imaginary line drawn on the free surface of a liquid at rest,the direction of this force being perpendicular to the line and tangential to the surface.


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