the property of a liquid that causes small drops to be spherical is called volatilisation.
the property of a liquid that causes small drops to be spherical is called volatilisation.
the property of a liquid that causes small drops to be spherical is called?
volatilisation
another notable example of this relation is ostwald ripening, in which surface tension causes small precipitates to dissolve and larger ones to grow. ostwald ripening is thought to occur in the formation of orthoclase megacrysts in granites as a consequence of subsolidus growth. see rock microstructure for more.









































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in 1871, lord kelvin (william thomson) obtained the following relation governing a liquid-vapor interface:formula_11where
ostwald–freundlich equation
the marshall and palmer distribution uses an exponential function that does not simulate properly drops of very small diameters (the curve in the top figure). several experiments have shown that the actual number of these droplets is less than the theoretical curve. carlton w. ulbricht developed a more general formula in 1983 taking into account that a drop is spherical if d <1 mm and an ellipsoid whose horizontal axis gets flattened as d gets larger. it is mechanically impossible to exceed d = 10 mm as the drop breaks at large diameters. from the general distribution, the diameter spectrum changes, μ = 0 inside the cloud, where the evaporation of small drops is negligible due to saturation conditions and μ = 2 out of the cloud, where the small drops evaporate because they are in drier air. with the same notation as before, we have for the drizzle the distribution of ulbricht:
raindrop size distribution