The Science Of Slipperiness
We've all had an experience where soap has made a wet thing slippery, but...why?
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Surface tension: tendency of fluid surfaces to shrink into the minimum surface area possible
- Surfactants: chemical compounds that decrease the surface tension or interfacial tension between two liquids, a liquid and a gas, or a liquid and a solid
- Amphiphilic: having both hydrophobic and hydrophilic parts
- Hydrophilic: having an affinity or attraction towards water molecules
- Hydrophobic: tending to be repelled by water molecules
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