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Registering surface tension

blueberry58 - 28-11-2014 at 19:44

The surface tension of liquids can be measured with small glass tube one-third of a millimeter in diameter. I have used this device to measure urine ST. This year the provider did not return to New York to sell.

Are there any glassware of this diameter and about 6 inches? Someone knows some other practical and inexpensive method for measuring the ST?

DrMario - 29-11-2014 at 08:35

The quartz tubing we use with our microfluidic devices have a few hundred µm ID.


And I think thin film chromatography micro-pipettes have a similar ID, and those are super-cheap.






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