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Wettability

Wettability describes the attempt of a solid to form a common interface with a liquid which comes into contact with it. One measure of the wettability by a particular liquid is the contact angle. A wettability profile of a solid, the so-called wetting envelope, can be created by determining the surface free energy and its polar part and its disperse part.

Glossary

  • Tensiometer
  • Three-phase point
  • Top-view distance method
  • Washburn method
  • Weber number
  • Wettability
  • Wetted length
  • Wetting
  • Wilhelmy plate method
  • Work of adhesion
  • Work of cohesion
  • Young's equation
  • Young-Laplace fit

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