interfacial tension

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   surface tension at the surface separating two non-miscible liquids

   Synonymsinterfacial surface tension

   Broadersurface tension

Questions about interfacial tension

What does interfacial tension mean?

interfacial tension means "surface tension at the surface separating two non-miscible liquids".

What is another word for interfacial tension?

Close synonyms include interfacial surface tension. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is interfacial tension a common word?

interfacial tension is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.