By Maurice P. Crosland

Gay-Lussac is healthier identified for his chemical paintings but in addition made vital contributions to different actual sciences and expertise. this can be the 1st paintings to ascertain significantly either the clinical paintings and the fellow at the back of it. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) lived via 3 revolutions in France and his existence mirrored the social adjustments occurring round him. His schooling and early development in technology relied on the Revolution of 1789 and at the patronage of the chemist Berthollet, an in depth affiliate of Napoleon Bonaparte. Gay-Lussac should be visible because the first 'professional' scientist and certainly, in the course of the booklet, Professor Crosland emphasises that he knew the best way to use his technology to unravel sensible difficulties and was once in a position to revenue significantly from this program.

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According to van Oss et al. 10 constitute the Lifshitz–van der Waals component: γLW= γd + γi + γр. 11) Here, the energies of the inductive and polar interactions γi and γр are the second smallness order values compared with the dispersive and hydrogen interactions. Therefore, only the γd value will be then used, but the γi and γр values will be neglected. 10 γh, γπ, γаd, and γе into the acid-base component [17]: γAB= γh + γπ + γаd + γе. 12) So, in most cases, the SFE is additively defined by two constituents, namely the dispersive and acid-base components: γ = γd + γ AB.

For the sake of simplicity, no liquid film is assumed to be around a drop on a solid surface. Today, the relationships between the advancing, receding, and equilibrium angles based on the Wenzel [29] or Cassie [47] equations are known, however the problem of determining the equilibrium contact angle is still unsolved. It was found that the advancing angles remain unchanged during a certain amount of time, while the receding angles depend on time of contact with support, that is, they gradually become smaller as the contact time increases.

Contact angles remain constant within time periods stated. 77 cP) and water (~1 cP) at room temperature, wetting of surface by glycerol and reaching constant advancing angle values occur more slowly (during 2 min). Basing on the dependencies obtained it may be said that contact angle measurements for aniline and water can be performed virtually just after they have been applied. Other liquids also wet the surface under test, with the advancing angle getting constant in several seconds. This is evidenced by photographs of drops of several liquids made 20, 40, and 60 s after their application (Fig.

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