Mark Klemick wrote:
Especially if they talk about surface energy at all... Very few writers will
address that part of the equation.
That was very much a part of the Cutter's article. Please send me your address to my private email in the header above, and I will send you a copy of the article. May take a bit of time because I am very busy with my business (weathering the Spring Rush), but I promise it will get there.
Here's an excerpt from the article by Ralph and Lisa Cutter called 'Walking on Water'...
"As molecules are wont to do , one water molecule mates with its neighbor for the briefest fraction of a split second, then uncouples and mates with another. Our pond is a three-dimensional dance floor filled with an orgy of promiscuous water molecules swapping partners a mile a minute.
The molecules on the surface of the water of the pond are a bit more monogamous. The magnetic forces on the air side of these water molecules have nothing to stick to, so they use up their energy by sticking extra hard to the molecules next to them. This extra-tight bond between the molecules on the surface of the water is many times stronger than the bond between the molecules below. This skim of tightly bonding molecules is called "surface tension."
Wes Bend, Oregon
