WHY A DEWDROP HOLDS IN ITS PLACE.
(Sent in by Stella Roberton, CottagD 119, Railway How, Ohakune Junction.)
The reason a dewdrop holds in place is <lne to its stickiness. We seldom think of water as being sticky, because tliero are so many other liquids, gums, and oils which are more eo, but we can see that water has a great deal of stickiness about it if we try to pour it out of a very fine tube. A dewdrop pulls hard against anything which tends to loosen its hold. Sometimes on a nasturtium leaf the water lies in tiny globules, but if the ball-like shape of the water drop is broken by any inequalities of a leaf or a blade of grass, the drops cling to the surface on which they find themselves. —Copied.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)
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