Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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surface tension

A force which tends to bring the contained volume of a body, e.g., a liquid, into the form having the least surface area, as in the tendency of a drop of water to assume a spherical shape, i.e., the smallest surface area for the given volume of liquid. (17 )




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