FOOD CHEMISTRY
CARBOHYDRATES PROTEINS AND LIPIDS
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Question
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Water’s tendency to stick to itself is called ____
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cohesion
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adhesion
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surface tension
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capillary action
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -cohesion, in physics, the intermolecular attractive force acting between two adjacent portions of a substance, particularly of a solid or liquid. It is this force that holds a piece of matter together. Intermolecular forces act also between two dissimilar substances in contact, a phenomenon called adhesion.
Detailed explanation-2: -In chemistry and physics, cohesion (from Latin cohaesiō ‘cohesion, unity’), also called cohesive attraction or cohesive force, is the action or property of like molecules sticking together, being mutually attractive.
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