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The Effect of Evaporation on Wilhelmy-Type Measurements of Wetting Tension: Is Wetting Equilibrium Reached for Cationic Surfactant Adsorption on Mica?

✍ Scribed by L.G.Tomas Eriksson


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
161 KB
Volume
191
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-9797

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✦ Synopsis


equilibrium contact angle; evaporation; hexadecylthe construction of different tensiometers vary, the best way to establish if evaporation takes place or not is to measure the change of liquid level in trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB); mica; surfactant adsorpan actual setup. This can be done by comparing the immersion depth at tion; Wilhelmy plate method. which a plate emerges from the solution (i.e., the meniscus lets go of the plate), provided that the zero setting is stable over a period of one or more days. This is the case with the KSV instrument used in our laboratory. For