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Subject: name of the shape of a drop of water
Category: Science > Physics
Asked by: tominla-ga
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Posted: 20 Mar 2003 19:56 PST
Expires: 19 Apr 2003 20:56 PDT
Question ID: 178996

What is the name of the shape of a drop of water (or other liquid)
resting on a surface that it doesn't wet in a gravitational field?  
Imagine a drop of water resting on a waxed car.   This situation is
termed a "sessile drop" in fluid mechanics and is analogous to a
meniscus, if the liquid is constrained to a tube, in
physics/chemistry.   The name I'm searching for may be from science or
mathematics or even architecture... and I think I used to know it
before my memory went fuzzzzy...

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Subject: Re: name of the shape of a drop of water
From: xarqi-ga on 20 Mar 2003 20:27 PST

The Winterbottom shape.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/WulffShape.html

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