If water had no polarity, life as we know it could not exist, so the mess in your apt would be the least of your troubles
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we probably would have no troubles at all
A two micrometer thick layer of water would evaporate nearly instantaneously, I’d think.
Especially if there were weaker intermolecular forces (which normally give it surface tension).
You could even mop it up by placing the mop in the middle of the room and just wait.
If there were no surface tension there would almost definitely be no wicking action either. If it didn't evaporate super quickly, water without surface tension would probably be a giant pain in the ass to clean up.
Surface tension and surface energy are related but different. The surface energy of the interface between water and air causes surface tension. The surface energy of the interface between water and mop fibers causes wicking.
If y'all have worked with silicone oil, yea it works kinda like this (depending on viscosity).
It creeps up out of containers, it creeps up walls. It gets everywhere.
I swear that shit must have negative surface tension with how much it gets everywhere
Hmm i think that would actually be better as the water where basically non existent caus it's so spread out. It would just instantly evaporate no?
Basic gas mechanics or whatever that's called is now out the window. You are breathing raccoon pee.
Yum
Well this post was only about water
Thank god toddler pee has surface tension.
Doesn't alcohol (like isopropol) have like zero surface tension? I know it evaporates super fast which is one of the factors that makes it a good cleaning agent.
This is almost completely unrelated, but your comment made me think of it for some reason, so story time:
Years ago, I worked at a gas station on the night shift. We had these huge wall mounted containers of cleaning supplies, like soap dispensers in a rest room, but like 30 gallons/100 liters, and full of various cleaning supplies that a company came by every so often and swapped the empties for full ones. There were like 5 of em, for use in cleaning different stuff.
One day, they came and swapped em out, and no one noticed that they'd all been replaced with rubbing alcohol until it was already after end of day for the delivery company. It took weeks before we could get them to come back out, and for several weeks I had to mop the floors and clean the whole store with diluted alcohol. It was sparkling clean, but good GOD the head rush. I had to leave the doors open and blast the AC whenever we were cleaning.
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This is sending my brain down a rabbit hole I don't want to explore.
I don't like smart meatwad. He's giving me existential dread.
water in noita be like: