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The Dependence of the Apparent Contact Angles on Gravity

โœ Scribed by Hideki Sakai; Tomiko Fujii

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
60 KB
Volume
210
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-9797

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โœฆ Synopsis

We have studied theoretically the effect of gravity on the rough solid-liquid interface and have shown that its tension is enhanced by gravity when gas is adsorbed at it. As a result, the apparent contact angle on rough surfaces, which has been considered not to be influenced by gravity so far, can be raised by gravity. The calculated dependence of contact angles on gravity under the ordinary conditions of the sessile drop method is large enough to detect by experiment. The observed asymmetrical deviations from Wenzel's contact angle caused by the gas adsorption at the solidliquid interface and by the liquid adsorption at the solid-gas interface are explained in terms of this gravitational effect.

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