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Determination of the surface energy of a solid by its critical surface tension

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The energy of solid surfaces of fluoroplastic, polyethylene, graphite, glass, and zinc at the solid–gas and solid–liquid interfaces was determined by the critical surface energy of these substances in the case of their complete wetting, where the equilibrium boundary wetting angle is equal to unity or zero. Equations for determining the equilibrium boundary angle of wetting of the surface of a solid by the surface tensions at the solid–liquid–gas interfaces without account for the gravitation and hysteresis effects are proposed.

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  1. M. D. Millionshchikov Groznyi State Oil Technical University (Derbent Branch), 54 Vokzal’naya Str., Derbent, Republic of Dagestan, 368600, Russia

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 85, No. 6, pp. 1357–1362, November–December, 2012.

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Gasanov, V.M. Determination of the surface energy of a solid by its critical surface tension. J Eng Phys Thermophy 85, 1469–1474 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-012-0797-4

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