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It is both. Anybody who has stuck a candle onto a candle base plate know that you first drip hot wax onto the plate and then quickly affix the candle to the wax before it cools and hardens. The wax sticking to the plate is adhesion, the wax sticking to itself is cohesion.
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Is the interaction between wax paper and water cohesive or adhesive?
This is a cohesive interaction.
Is water cohesive or adhesive?
Cohesive
What makes water both adhesive and cohesive?
Surface tension does.
What is an easy way to remember adhesive and cohesive?
Adhesion is the attraction bettween molecules of different substances. Cohesion is the attaction between moleculesof the same substances.
What is the pot life of an adhesive?
"Pot life" is how long an adhesive can stay in a glue pot before it starts to set up, and it differs from adhesive to adhesive.
Is the interaction between wax paper and water cohesive or adhesive?
This is a cohesive interaction.
Water beads up on wax paper because its cohesive forces are greater than the adhesive forces?
Yes, water beads up on wax paper because its cohesive forces are greater than the adhesive forces.
Does water bead up on wax paper because its cohesive forces are greater than its adhesive forces?
Yes.
Is water cohesive or adhesive?
Cohesive
Is the concrete is adhesive or cohesive?
adhesive
Is carbon cohesive and adhesive?
no
What rhymes with cohesive?
Adhesive, decisive, inconclusive.
Use the word cohesive in a sentence?
The team presented a cohesive plan for the project, demonstrating their strong unity and organization.
If water spreads out on a glass plate is this an example or cohesive or adhesive force?
Both, the water molecules are cohesive to each other, and the outer water molecules are adhesive to the table surface.
What makes water both adhesive and cohesive?
Surface tension does.
Why does water drop spread on glass surface while mercury does not?
Water has stronger adhesive forces than adhesive forses. Mercury on the other hand has stronger cohesive forces than adhesive. cohesive forces hold molecules of the same substance together , vice-versa for adhesive forces
What are some forces that can act when in contact?
cohesive force and Adhesive force
