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Why does water form droplets?

Chemistry For Your Life

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The Role of Water in Circular Jobs

Most groups of kids stand kind of in circles. They're being pulled inward into a nice circular shape. The same is true with water molecules. When they're isolated in a drop, not interacting with anything else, they will naturally form a spherical shape. You can see that in the water droplet. It also has that skin or film that forms the sphere. But in larger bodies, it's across the whole body of water. Service tension. That concept of this surface layer is defined as something many people have heard before, but not many people can define.

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