What makes water beading?

Chemistry Level 1

The above is a photograph of water beading on a leaf (photo taken by Michael Apel). Water adheres weakly to waxy surface such as a leaf and strongly to itself, so water clusters into drops. Surface tension gives them their near-spherical shape, because a sphere has the smallest possible surface area to volume ratio. The surface tension of water is higher than most of other materials. What best explains this high surface tension of water?

Metallic bond Covalent bond Hydrogen bond van der Waals force

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Lakshan Dumpa by Lakshan Dumpa , 24, India

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because water contains H2o molecules thats why the surfacetension of water will be hihg with hydeogen bond

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But the bond exists due to the van der Walls force

Jayesh More - 7 years, 3 months ago

ya u r right Jayesh......why h bond explain surface tension?????????

Lalita Verma - 7 years, 3 months ago

But hydrogen bond is a type of Vander Waal's interaction

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Dharmang Bhavsar
Feb 28, 2014

Hydrogen Bond will be the answer because it is the strongest bond in water and the effects of the van der walls bond will be nullified!!!

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Aravind Raj
Feb 28, 2014

hydrogen bonding is one of the strongest forms of bonding in water , and an example is that it causes the water molecules in water to put together, to minimize the surface area. This is force is surface tension.

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more precisely its due to cohesion force.......

Sanjeev Kumar - 7 years, 3 months ago

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