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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Surface tension doesn't tell you anything about the cloth-water interface.

[–] yuri@pawb.social 1 points 12 hours ago

late reply but i ONLY JUST CONSIDERED, the cloth would most likely have some static charge which WOULD result in a literal “attraction force” towards the water!

physics is so stupid, i love it so much

[–] yuri@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago

i mean it’s literally why liquids wick into cloth