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Capillarity tubes
Capillary Cap"il*la*ry (k[a^]p"[i^]l*l[asl]*r[y^] or k[.a]*p[i^]l"l[.a]*r[y^]; 277), a. [L. capillaris, fr. capillus hair. Cf. Capillaire.] 1. Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants. 2. Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action. Capillary attraction, Capillary repulsion, the apparent attraction or repulsion between a solid and liquid caused by capillarity. See Capillarity, and Attraction. Capillarity tubes. See the Note under Capillarity.
Electro-capillarity
Electro-capillarity E*lec`tro-cap`il*lar"i*ty, n. (Physics) The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.

Meaning of Capillarity from wikipedia

- Capillary action (sometimes called capillarity, capillary motion, capillary rise, capillary effect, or wicking) is the process of a liquid flowing in...
- liquids. Surface tension is an important factor in the phenomenon of capillarity. Surface tension has the dimension of force per unit length, or of energy...
- Elasto-capillarity is the ability of capillary force to deform an elastic material. From the viewpoint of mechanics, elastocapillarity phenomena essentially...
- Soil mechanics is a branch of soil physics and applied mechanics that describes the behavior of soils. It differs from fluid mechanics and solid mechanics...
- Capillaritätserscheinungen" ("Conclusions drawn from the phenomena of capillarity"), in which he proposed a model of intermolecular attraction that he...
- retirement in 1993. His works covered a wide range of subjects, including on capillarity (the ability of a liquid to flow in narrow spaces without the ****istance...
- measure of the capacity of the medium to absorb or desorb liquid by capillarity. According to C Hall and W D Hoff, the sorptivity expresses the tendency...
- potential. Water moves in soil under the influence of gravity, osmosis and capillarity. When water enters the soil, it displaces air from interconnected macropores...
- with fully restored health. Between 1859 and 1861, he worked on the capillarity of liquids and the workings of the spectroscope in Heidelberg. Later...
- IUTAM Symposium on Capillarity and Elastocapillarity in Biology 2024. Kim's research has focused on biofluid mechanics, capillarity, bubbles, nanofabrication...