• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Oil doesn’t have surface tension and it stays in the cloth. At a certain point it’s not surface tension that keeps liquids together but friction.

    Says my uneducated ass.

    • yuri@pawb.social
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      oils have low surface tension, i believe a true no-surface tension liquid is as impossible as a true frictionless surface.

      i didn’t consider friction though! i think the rag would still dry out completely pretty quick, but you might have a few seconds while the water falls out depending on how tight the mesh is?

      i dunno, this is a real whacky thing to think about!