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I think you mean surface tension. Water has surface tension because water is a polar molecule, meaning the opposite sides of the molecule do not share electrons equally. This means that one end of the water molecule has a positive charge and the other has a negative one. The Law of Electromagnetic Force tells us that opposite charges attract each other. So, at the surface, where there is no water above it, the top layer of water molecules allighn themselves and because of the attractive forces in the charged particles, they "stick" together. This is surface tension.

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