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physics question: liquid transport/wick system
Hello,
I'd like to know how to calculate the transport of a certain volume of water in a vertical wick system.
Said system is as follows:
one end of a rope, hanging vertically 5 meters, stands in a bucket of water. The other hand is embedded in a sponge located 5 meter above the bucket.
Assuming that water evaporates from the sponge over time (thus making overwetting not an issue), I'd like to know which rope diameter/material would
be needed to transport, say, 0.03 liters/hour up in the sponge.
Also I'd like to know what are the height limits for said system and if a hollow plastic tube would be more efficient at trasporting water by
capillary action.
I include a very simple drawing, if I had better IT skills and hardware I'd have uploaded one drawn by hand.
Thank you very much 
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You even state yourself that this is a physics question, yet you fail to notice that you are on a chemistry forum.
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