Surface Tension

In this experiment you will explore the concepts of surface free energy, adhesion and wetting

Literature

  1. Surface tension - Wikipedia.
  2. A Surface Chemistry Experiment Using an Inexpensive Contact Angle Goniometer
  3. Wetting Experiments with a "Web Cam" in an Undergraduate Student Laboratory
  4. Critical surface tension of solid substrates (Zisman method).
  5. P.W. Atkins, Physical Chemistry, eighth edition, W. H. Freeman and Company, N.Y., 2006.
  6. The adsorption at solution - air interface and volumetric properties of mixtures of cationic and nonionic surfactants