{"id":311,"date":"2022-11-06T21:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T21:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/?p=311"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T21:02:18","slug":"cohesive-and-adhesive-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/cohesive-and-adhesive-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohesive and Adhesive Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"simpletoc-title\">Table of Contents<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"simpletoc-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#cohesive-and-adhesive-forces\">Cohesive and Adhesive Forces<\/a>\n<ul><li>\n<a href=\"#i-cohesive-force\">(i) Cohesive force:<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#ii-adhesive-force\">(ii) Adhesive force:<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"cohesive-and-adhesive-forces\">Cohesive and Adhesive Forces <\/h3>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"i-cohesive-force\">(i) Cohesive force:<\/h4>\n\n\n<p>It is the force of attraction between the molecules of the same substance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Example:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solids have definite shape and size due to strong forces of cohesion amongst their molecules.<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ii-adhesive-force\">(ii) Adhesive force:<\/h4>\n\n\n<p>It is the force of attraction between the molecules of two different substances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Example:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is due to force of adhesion that ink sticks to paper while writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Water wets the walls of its glass container because the force of adhesion between water and glass is greater than the force of cohesion between the water molecules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the contrary, mercury does not wet glass because the force of cohesion between the mercury molecules is much greater than the force of adhesion between mercury and glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cohesive and Adhesive Forces (i) Cohesive force: It is the force of attraction between the molecules of the same substance. Example: Solids have definite shape and size due to strong forces of cohesion amongst their molecules. (ii) Adhesive force: It is the force of attraction between the molecules of two different substances. Example: It is &#8230; <a title=\"Cohesive and Adhesive Forces\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/cohesive-and-adhesive-forces\/\" aria-label=\"More on Cohesive and Adhesive Forces\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,55,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}