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Why does mercury not wet glass?? |
| Answer» Hindi m ans milga kya<br>Mercury does not wet the glass because the cohesive force with the drops is stronger than the adhesive force between the drops and glass.<br>Mercury does not wet glass - the cohesive forces within the drops are stronger than the adhesive forces between the drops and glass. When liquid mercury is confined in a tube, its surface (meniscus) has a convex shape because the cohesive forces in liquid mercury tend to draw it into a drop. | |