https://scientificgamer.com/capillary-action/ Science, gaming, and all things in between. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:05:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.36 https://scientificgamer.com/capillary-action/#comment-3315 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:51:13 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=2634#comment-3315 It’s adhesion to the sides of the capillary that drives the capillary action. Once you run out of capillary to adhere to there’s no more capillary action and no more force driving the fluid upwards. So it doesn’t matter how short you make your tube, the fluid inside will only rise to the top and no further.

]]> https://scientificgamer.com/capillary-action/#comment-3262 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:30:27 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=2634#comment-3262 For example, if the tube on the far right of the first image was half as tall, what would happen to the liquid?

]]> https://scientificgamer.com/capillary-action/#comment-3260 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:22:33 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=2634#comment-3260 Will the force ever be strong enough to pull the liquid out of a (short, thin) tube, or will it just sit with a convex meniscus at the top because the force isn’t strong enough to overcome the surface tension?

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