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1 paź 2023 · While small arthropods are able to take advantage of the water's surface properties to retain air bubbles on their bodies for air-breathing during diving, other small animals face a different surface tension related problem: the inability to move air into their air-breathing organ.
19 lut 2020 · The surface tension of water provides a thin, elastic membrane upon which many tiny animals are adapted to live and move. We show that it may be equally important to the minute animals living beneath it by examining air-breathing mechanics in five species (three families) of anuran (frog) tadpoles.
15 lis 2017 · Why? Because the surface tension of water is high enough to support the weight of the spider but with much lower surface tension, ethanol can’t do the same. The high surface tension of water is also the reason why rain comes down as a spherical drop.
Flows driven by surface tension are both ubiquitous and diverse, involving the drinking of birds and bees, the flow of xylem in plants, the impact of raindrops on animals, respiration in humans, and the transmission of diseases in plants and animals, including humans.
Surface tension is a measure of the energetic differential between the bulk and the interface. Additional creation of surface area coin-cides with a higher energy state for a given fluid-bulk; thus, a general principle of minimization of the surface energy governs most small bodies of fluid.
1 mar 2016 · Flight on the 2D air–water interface, with body weight supported by surface tension, is a unique locomotion strategy well adapted for the environmental niche on the surface of water. Although previously described in aquatic insects like stoneflies, the biomechanics of interfacial flight has never been analysed.
1 lip 2023 · The surface tension of water provides a thin, elastic membrane upon which many tiny animals are adapted to live and move.
