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The property of surface tension causes water to occupy the least possible surface area, or to put it simply, "stick together".

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Why do sugar crystal reform if you evaporate water?

Sugar crystals reform when the water they were previously in evaporates. As the water has evaporated, the sugar particles can no longer be supported separately and so they stick together in order to support themselves.


How does glue stick to things if it doesnt stick to the bottle?

When you squeeze the glue out of it's container, it makes contact with air, therefore evaporating the water molecules and drying it onto the surface of which you are gluing. So the reason why glue doesn't stick to the inside of the bottle is merely because the top is (hopefully) sealed, denying air access to the glue inside, so the water molecules remain intact. Hopefully you found this resourceful.


Is Popsicle stick waterproof?

Oh, dude, let me tell you, those Popsicle sticks are like tiny little warriors against water. They're made of wood, right? And wood and water don't really get along. So technically speaking, those sticks aren't waterproof at all. They'll soak up water faster than you can say "brain freeze."


Why do ice cubes stick together in the freezer?

Answering the question and the question in the details below:Ice cubes stick together because the surface of ice is liquid-like and when the ice cubes touch, the surfaces freeze together. For more background, please view the answer to "Why is ice slippery?"The following answer gives some scientific details pertaining to ice:Water freezes at 0 degrees celsius, but the ice that comes out of your freezer is much colder.From the moment you put ice into water, the water gets colder and the ice gets warmer until there is one uniform temperature and all ice has turned to water. You can imagine how if the ice were cold enough, it could freeze all the water.Two cubes of ice at say -10C would easily freeze a thin layer of cold water surrounding them before they get down to the temperature at which they begin to melt.BUT I have noticed that often cubes that are half-melted will still stick together. How can this be? If it has been shrinking, the outer layer should be in the process of melting and therefore not cold enough to freeze its surroundings. I do not know the explanation for this. Perhaps I wasn't watching closely enough. Maybe they froze together when they were larger and for some reason the connections don't melt as fast as the other parts of the ice. More experimentation needed.


Does the dragonfish breathe water or air?

The dragon fish breaths in air from the water so keep the tank well filtered, or have air bubbles.

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Can air and water molecules stick together to form a bubble?

No? When you open water, the water molecules have contact with the air molecules. BUT! does the water turn into bubbles? I don't think so.


How does adhesion and cohesion affect each other?

Adhesion is where water molecules stick to other things, and cohesion is where the water molecules stick to each other. The combination of this makes it so that together, they can climb up things like roots of a tree to give the tree water.


Does cotton felt?

No, not in the same way that wool felts. Cotton lacks the 'hooks' that wool contains, so cotton doesn't 'stick together' as well as does wool.


How do water molecules form and interact?

Water molecules stick together when they get closer together. This is due to the partial positive charge of the hydrogen atoms and the partial negative charge of the oxygen atom. The sticking together is called cohesion.


Why did the Germans stick together?

because the Irish wanted to fight them and the Germans were scared so they always stuck together


Where does your water vapour condense?

Water vapor condenses when warm air rises, and temperatures drop. It is easier to condense in cold air because the molecules are moving more slowly, so they can stick together better.


How do you make gak without barox?

well u see thats what makes it stick together and chunky and, well gak. the other subtens would be starch, but there the same thing so u need it to make it , :(


Does a stick absorb water?

Yes, most certainly it does. A stick is wood and is made of a fibrous material which can absorb water. In fact it can become so saturated with water that it will not float.


How do horse live in the wild?

they mate, sleep together, keep safe, and stick together, so no horses lives are at risk.


Does north stick to north for magnets?

No. The north sides of two magnets do not stick together because they have the same polarity. The north and south sides of a magnet, however, do stick together because they are on opposite poles and, pertaining to magnets, opposites attract. actually if you push two repelling magnets together so they touch they will stick, without flipping, not entirely sure why they don't repel but it seems that the magnetic fields somehow overlap, so that within the repelling field there is a small of the attracting field, i know this isn't true of the attracting side because the magnets stick together regardless, but on the repelling side when they touch they will stick


Why H bonding so importance to water's properties?

Hydrogen bonding allows water molecules to stick together. Although it is considered to be a weak bond, the special properties of hydrogen bonding allows water to be useful in MANY different circumstances. Hydrogen bonding in water allows it to be the universal solvent. It also keeps water molecules together so that we have actual water instead of gas (imagine a world without liquid H2O).


Why does viscosity happen?

Molecules in a liquid like to stick together. An example is the weak hydrogen bonds in water. It is these bonds that draw water up a plant as the water is used by the cells at the top the weak bonds draw additional water up from the roots (there is no pump). In oils the hydrocarbons stick to each other in the same way, as one moves so do the rest. When you add dish washing liquid to oily water you break these bonds and so break the viscosity.