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Is water cohesive or adhesive?
Cohesive
Is the interaction between wax paper and water cohesive or adhesive?
This is a cohesive interaction.
What makes water both adhesive and cohesive?
Surface tension does.
When water is in a container the surface of the water is curved this curve is call?
Meniscus is the curve at the surface of a liquid in a cylinder. It is caused by the adhesive and cohesive properties of water molecules. (Meniscus was incorrectly spelled in an earlier answer as "miniscus.")
Can liquid be held?
yes,but i'll say stick would be a better word then held. they stick due to their adhesive properties. for e.g. our hand is wetted by water due to adhesive propety of water.
Is water cohesive or adhesive?
Cohesive
Is the interaction between wax paper and water cohesive or adhesive?
This is a cohesive interaction.
What is the difference between water's cohesive and adhesive chemical properties and explain how each property benefits life on earth?
We are not going to do your homework !
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 adhesive?
cohesion-- Water molecules stick to each other. adhesion-- Water molecules stick to other molecules. Water is a polar molecule because of oxygen is more electronegative. Hydrogen bonds create surface tension and result it water's cohesive and adhesive properties. Hydrophobic = repel water Hydropholic = affinity for water. ...... hahaha XD
What makes water both adhesive and cohesive?
Surface tension does.
2 How can you explain Cohesion and adhesion in term of water molecules?
Water has both cohesive and adhesive forces. They are similar.The cohesive of water describes how the molecules of water are attracted to one another. We observe the cohesive forces of water when we see a drop of water sitting on a surface. The water does not spread because the molecules are attracted to one another. Surface tension of water is due to its cohesive properties.The cohesive forces of water are due to hydrogen bonding between molecules.Adhesive properties of water are how the molecules are attracted to other substances. We observe the adhesive forces of water when we see the edge of water in a glass is attracted up on the sides of the glass. This is most apparent when the diameter of the glass vessel is less than a centimetre. It is called a meniscus. Trees use this adhesive property of water to help suck water up from the ground. If the diameter of the glass is small enough, as in a glass capillary, the water will rise up the tube by itself due to adhesive forces.
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
Why is water both adhesive and cohesive?
Cohesion in water is the water being 'sticky' or attracted to itself. Adhesion in water is when the water is 'sticky' or attacted to other surfaces. Water is cohesive and adhesive because of it's properties. The oxyogen and hydrogen molecules are bonded together and are polar. Beacuse the molecules are polar the particales are therefore attracted to each other from negative to positive end (cohesion), but are also atracted to other particles in other surfaces, again positive to negative poles (adhesion). It's very important that water be both cohesive and adhesive for being good for solutions and other functions.
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.
Why does water stick to hand?
water exerts two types of force cohesive and adhesive force.Cohesive force exist between water molecules and adhesive force exist between water and other objects.therefore when our hand is dipped in water the adhesive force overtakes the cohesive force and thus water sticks to hand.Its same as the capillarity principle
Can you give some sentences using the word cohesive?
Water molecules are both cohesive and adhesive: they can stick together or stick to other surfaces.
