capillary action

ability of a liquid to flow in narrow spaces
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capillary action

Summary

capillary action ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (501 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • capillary action's image is recorded as Krajovy uhel.svg[2].
  • capillary action's GND ID is recorded as 4029556-4[3].
  • capillary action's subclass of is recorded as physical phenomenon[4].
  • capillary action's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00576296[5].
  • capillary action's Commons category is recorded as Capillary action[6].
  • capillary action's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D002197[7].
  • capillary action's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01g0sw[8].
  • capillary action's MeSH tree code is recorded as G02.860.327[9].
  • capillary action's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph121441[10].
  • capillary action's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300191613[11].
  • capillary action's PSH ID is recorded as 3029[12].
  • capillary action's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • capillary action's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[14].
  • capillary action's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/capillarity[15].
  • capillary action's immediate cause of is recorded as rising damp[16].
  • capillary action's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0006903[17].
  • capillary action's NE.se ID is recorded as kapillärkraft[18].
  • capillary action's Treccani ID is recorded as capillarita[19].
  • capillary action's Quora topic ID is recorded as Capillary-Action[20].
  • capillary action's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as capillary-tubing[21].
  • capillary action's Open Library subject ID is recorded as capillarity[22].
  • capillary action's Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID is recorded as capillarita[23].
  • capillary action's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as kapillaritet[24].
  • capillary action's Treccani Vocabulary ID is recorded as capillarita[25].
  • capillary action's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 196806460[26].

Why It Matters

capillary action ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (501 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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