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wetting tension (or work of immersional wetting per unit area)
The work done on a system when the process of immersional wetting involving unit area of phase β is carried out reversibly:
Math - e
where Math - ei and Math - ei are the surface tensions between two bulk phases α, β and β, δ, respectively.
Source:
PAC, 1972, 31, 577 (Manual of Symbols and Terminology for Physicochemical Quantities and Units, Appendix II: Definitions, Terminology and Symbols in Colloid and Surface Chemistry) on page 598
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