Surface tension of water on adding detergent?

Answer 1

Well If you have a pie pan filled with milk and then drop 4 diffrent colors of food coloring droped in but not touching then get a tooth pick with detergent on it and touch it in the foodcoloring will swirl out like tie die in the pan.

Answer 2

Actually, detergent causes the surface tension of water to decrease. Surface tension of water is caused by an intermolecular force called hydrogen bonding. The detergent interferes with the hydrogen bonding occurring between H2O molecules so, therefore, detergent decreases surface tension.

Answer 3

The surface tension of water is 72 mN.m-1 in SI units. Adding detergent lowers the surface tension to less than this number. Some common ones will lower it to 25mN.m-1

This is how washing up liquid works. The surface tension of water is high and the surface tension of grease and oils and fats etc is lower. Adding a detergent bridges the energy gap

Answer 4

detergents break up the surface tension by perturbing hydrogen bonding on the surface: the detergent's apolar chain ends will prefer to stick out of the water (that is to say, the water will preferentially form hydrogen bonds with each other making the chain ends sticking out entropically favoured: if the apolar chains were in the bulk of the water it would force the water molecules to adopt and "ice-like" ordered state to maximize hydrogen bonding) so yeah, surface tension will be lowered with addition of detergent.

Answer 5

When detergent is added to water, the detergent molecules break down the cohesive attractive forces of the water molecules at the surface. Thus, the surface tension is broken.

Answer 6

Yes it does increase the surface tension THE detergent causes the surface tension of water to increase

Answer 7

It increases

Answer 8

decreases