applications for capillarity
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❁ Applications for Capillarity are :
✍ We use a towel today our body after bath, which absorbs water by the capillary action.
✍ Water reaches every branch of plant by the capillary action in the roots and every branch of plant.
✍ The tip of the nib of a pen is split to provide capillary action for rise of ink.
✍ A blotting paper observes ink by the capillary action of pores of the paper.
✍ A sponge absorbs water by the capillary action.
✍ Cotton wicks contain find pores which act as capillaries. Due to surface tension, kerosene rises through the pores and reaches the tip of the wick. Hence a lamp can burn continuously.
Applications for capillary are :-
✧ The oil rises through wicks of lamp through capillary action .
✧ Any liquid will be absorbed by the sponges through capillary action .
✧ Ink will be absorbed by blotting paper .
✧ We an perform chromatography experiment .
✧ Water rises through sap of tress and reaches to all parts of tree .