If the drop is small enough, it is a perfect sphere. A sphere is the geometrical shape that
has the smallest surface area for its volume. The drop takes this shape because water
molecules tend to stick to each other. So, when not confined by a container, and with
nothing around it to distort its shape, a very tiny water drop is perfectly round like a
ball because the water molecules are pulling inward toward each other.
Small water drops are spherical in shape due to surface tension. Surface tension is a property of liquids that causes them to minimize their surface area, resulting in a spherical shape for small droplets as it is the shape that has the lowest surface area. This is why small water drops tend to form perfect spherical shapes.
Surface tension causes molecules to hold to themselves more tightly. Therefore high surface tension liquids, like pure water, will form a taller drop and low surface tension substances, like oil, will spread out and be flat.
cohesion/ cohesive forces
Surface tension is the force that pulls liquids together to form drops when they fall. This force is due to the cohesive forces between the liquid molecules at the surface.
Raindrops are initially shaped as spheres due to the surface tension of water, which pulls the droplet into the most efficient shape possible. As raindrops fall, air resistance can distort their spherical shape slightly, but gravity forces them back into a more spherical form. This shape allows the raindrops to fall more easily through the air.
Liquids with high surface tension, such as water, form spherical drops due to this property. Surface tension is the cohesive force that causes molecules at the surface of a liquid to be drawn inward, creating a spherical shape to minimize surface area.
Small water drops are spherical in shape due to surface tension. Surface tension is a property of liquids that causes them to minimize their surface area, resulting in a spherical shape for small droplets as it is the shape that has the lowest surface area. This is why small water drops tend to form perfect spherical shapes.
Surface tension is the property that causes liquids to form spherical drops. This is due to the molecules at the surface of the liquid being more attracted to each other than to the surrounding air, causing them to minimize surface area and form a sphere.
Surface tension causes molecules to hold to themselves more tightly. Therefore high surface tension liquids, like pure water, will form a taller drop and low surface tension substances, like oil, will spread out and be flat.
The reason mercury droplets are spherical is because they do easily wet other surfaces. For this reason, mercury forms spheres, which have the smallest possible ration of surface area to volume.
the spherical water drops of a flower.
Drops.
The pull on the surface of liquids that allow liquids to form drops when they fall are called surface tension. This property is due to the cohesive forces between liquid molecules at the surface.
Its surface tension hold it in a logical shape (why is a bubble spherical?)
cohesion/ cohesive forces
It is surface tension.
Surface tension is the force that pulls liquids together to form drops when they fall. This force is due to the cohesive forces between the liquid molecules at the surface.