Question

we observe that kerosene rises up in the wick of a lantern take a wick and put a spot of ink at one of its ends then dip the wick in kerosene just as you had dipped thw chalk in water in the chromatography activity . will your experiment be succeaful in seperating the colour ink spot.try it​





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It's due to capillary action. This effect is due to surface tension of liquids. The wick here acts as a capillary tube. ... Oil rises up to the wick in a lampowing to the surface tension phenomenon.

Kerosene oil rises in a wick of lantern because of capillary action in the wick. ... Most of the wicks are made up of cotton or threads of cotton. The small pores act as small capillaries, causing it to absorb a large amount of fluid.

Answer 2

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