A common apparatus used to demonstrate the first phenomenon is the capillary tube.
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Due to surface tension water will rise up in a small capillary tube above a free surface of water.
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This allowed them to rotate the bristles inside a 300-micrometre-wide capillary tube, cleaning contamination off its walls.
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Compressing the first reservoir sends the fluorescent liquid up a capillary tube around the perimeter of the watch, displacing the other liquid into the second reservoir.
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The capillary rise of water in a small diameter tube is this same physical process.
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These 370 glass capillaries are bundled into a glass tube called a capillary array, about the width of a drinking straw.
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Glass is hydrophilic, which is why a thin glass tube will draw water into itself via capillary action.
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Such gels could also be embedded with proteins that help the cells orient themselves in a desired structure, such as a tube that could form a capillary.
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The capillary action refers to the tendency of water to move up a narrow tube against the force of gravity.