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Water tension is caused by the angled shape of the structure of the H2O molecule wherein the two hydrogen atoms (1 e-)^2 are on the opposite side of the molecule as the one oxygen atom (6 e-). Thus the molecule becomes polar [same principal as a magnet] and therefore each molecule of water is attracted to the next one in a form known as cohesion.

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