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capillary action
- The movement of a liquid along the surface of a solid caused by the attraction of molecules of the liquid to the molecules of the solid.
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Of course you have to keep wetting it, for hair will not draw oil fast enough by capillary action.
By this simple contrivance the capillary action can be stopped or renewed in a second, without removing the top of the lubricator.
A cotton wick dipped in the oil may also serve the same purpose by its capillary action.
Because when hoed, thereby disturbing capillary action, he found less moisture than when unhoed, in surface soil.
We have now described the principal forms of the theory of capillary action during its earlier development.
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