Headingtonium _ Issue 6

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Sticky Gas

what can robotics learn from the octapus

If there are sticky soli sticky liquids, then ar sticky gases?

Sticky solids and sticky liquids holding your schedule togethe Now consider this. All substanc sticky liquids, then are there st orld.

How about sticky gases then? How

looking at stickiness as the binding

Sticky solids like adhesive tape, bin

We can consider the molecular mo

weak intermolecular forces. Molec

proportion to the space they occupy

the ter ia l is of a ma liquid or s s e in r a stick state, conside cts the hat a ffe . We would osit y. In liquid other. w , y ll a s Essenti cula r force s a high v isc lide over each hold a s d ole inter m ‘stick y ’ if it h cked but ca n molecules a n nger n o ti een ely pa y stro m s b tw lo r e solu c e b e t th r the ex is toge les a molecu lecula r forces ules a re held nerg y to pull rces, e c o fo Inter m ether. If mole it ta kes more r molecula r leum g te o , them to cula r forces tronger the in action of petr ple is r s ole f m e a a m r x , th e n te e r in r e, y. Bit um faces, fo Strong T herefo apa r t. er the v iscosit v ing road sur cula r size. more le a h o e p b ig m rge d for the h es, to nly use of its la er Waa ls forc ce giv ing it a d commo k y because sa me c les, hen (or va n ver y sti cula r forces tween molecu r solids, the cules le fo e o le s b o m A d r m . e ld es s rm inte rces ho stick in ) a re fo e work specific cosit y a nd its r molecula r fo hesives we us te d is a high v lies where in ’. A lot of the p k logic ap a nd they ‘stic r . e le th e ip g to inc a me pr on the s

forces are not one of the most impo

We can perhaps look at it from ano

with absorption, is the adhesion of

the physical bonding of gas molecu

by van der Waals forces. Atoms on molecules. As a result, gas molecu

existing might be valid. In fact, so

molecules in gas state can be obser

metal surfaces of the instrument an

Chemisorption is a kind of adsorpti as a physical property, chemisorpt

Finally, we could answer the question all along

how we define sticky. Stickiness is not a physic

sticky gases are everywhere. Alternatively, if w

is essentially the same as asking if water is wet. chemical world.


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