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Subject: Does the surface tension of a liquid vary with the ambient pressure

Date: Thu May 27 19:16:40 2004
Posted by Ian Southen
Grade level: grad (science) School: Osmose New Zealand
City: Tauranga State/Province: No state entered. Country: New Zealand
Area of science: Physics
ID: 1085703400.Ph
Message:

I work in the feild of timber preservation and am looking at why solvent based 
preservatives penetrate timber better than water based.  One of the differences 
is that the surface tension of the solvent we use is significantly lower than 
water.  I can find any number of references to the fact that surface tension 
varies with ambient temeperature but none on a relationship with pressure.


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