The capillary action of the water serves to retain the sand particles, and water seeps may form.
Water can be drawn into a building by capillary action.
Other teams are striving to control their fuel cell's operations by using solely passive processes, such as evaporation, diffusion, and capillary action.
In resting insect tissues, tracheoles are typically filled with liquid drawn by capillary action from the surrounding tissue.
Later it reappears, floating on water in an example of surface tension or indicating the diameters of glass tubes in a demonstration of capillary action.
Definition of capillary action in US English:
capillary action
nounˈkæpəˌlɛri ˈækʃən
another term for capillarity
Example sentencesExamples
Later it reappears, floating on water in an example of surface tension or indicating the diameters of glass tubes in a demonstration of capillary action.
The capillary action of the water serves to retain the sand particles, and water seeps may form.
In resting insect tissues, tracheoles are typically filled with liquid drawn by capillary action from the surrounding tissue.
Other teams are striving to control their fuel cell's operations by using solely passive processes, such as evaporation, diffusion, and capillary action.
Water can be drawn into a building by capillary action.