Surface tension of spherical drops from surface of tension

Surface Tension of Serum

An attempt was made to apply to the study of immune sera the fact, pointed out in our previous papers, that at a given dilution the serum shows a maximum drop of surface tension in function of time (time-drop). The results of the experiments here reported would seem to indicate that: 1. The time-drop of a serum solution is greater after the animal has been immunized than before immunization (fr...

Liquid drops and surface tension with smoothed particle applied mechanics

Smoothed particle applied mechanics (SPAM), also referred to as smoothed particle hydrodynamics, is a Lagrangian particle method for the simulation of continuous flows. Here we apply it to the formation of a liquid drop, surrounded by its vapor, for a van der Waals (vdW) fluid in two dimensions. The cohesive pressure of the vdW equation of state gives rise to an attractive, central force betwee...

On the surface tension of fluctuating quasi-spherical vesicles.

We calculate the stress tensor for a quasi-spherical vesicle and we thermally average it in order to obtain the actual, mechanical, surface tension tau of the vesicle. Both closed and poked vesicles are considered. We recover our results for tau by differentiating the free energy with respect to the proper projected area. We show that tau may become negative well before the transition to oblate...

Surface Tension of Serum

As stated in previous papers, 1-4 the four essential conditions under which the presence of antibodies in immune serum can be detected and followed by means of what might be termed the tensiometric method are: first, the dilution of the serum to 1:10,000; second, the use of strictly clean vessels; third, the care in handling the solutions, which must absolutely not be disturbed between the two ...

Prediction of Surface Tension in Single and Mixed Electrolyte Solutions