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Original Articles

The Wetting Behavior of Spherical Particles in Narrow Retaining Vessels

Pages 1520-1523 | Received 12 Oct 2007, Accepted 12 Oct 2007, Published online: 22 Oct 2008
 

Abstract

The capillarity-driven ascent of liquid through certain elementary assemblies of equal spherical particles held in a neutrally wetted container is considered and the conditions for liquid to flow are established. For flow through the assembly to be possible, critical contact angles of the liquid on the spheres must not be exceeded. These critical angles are considerably lower than the 90° which the Washburn equation predicts. Finally, the effect of sphere size disparity (or polydispersity) is considered in an Appendix. It is shown that wetting of the assembly may be controlled by manipulation of size distributions as well as by change in the contact angle. Experimental evidence in support of these ideas is presented for a two-dimensional array.

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