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We measured the macroscopic boundary angles of wetting by water, acetone, and pentane of the capillary structures of antigravity heat pipes in the 293–363 °K temperature range.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 66–71, January, 1986.
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Kuskov, G.V., Maidanik, Y.F. Macroscopic boundary angles of wetting of sintered capillary structures of heat pipes. Journal of Engineering Physics 50, 53–58 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00871411
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00871411