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To the theory of wetting

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Young’s equation is considered as applied to describe the behavior of ideal systems in thermodynamic equilibrium with the classification of the solid bodies into bodies having low-energy and high-energy surfaces. This classification verifies the validity of categorizing real systems into wetting and nonwetting ones with the wetting boundary lying at the contact angle having a value of θ = 90° and allows the nonwetting systems to be represented by three ranges of manifestation of contact angles, namely: a nonwetting range with contact angles of θ > 106°, an equilibrium wetting range (74° < θ < 106°), and a nonequilibrium incomplete wetting range (θ < 74°).

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  1. Institute of Metallurgy, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Amundsena 101, Yekaterinburg, 620016, Russia

    A. I. Timofeev

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Original Russian Text © A.I. Timofeev, 2013, published in Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii, 2013, Vol. 58, No. 7, pp. 917–921.

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Timofeev, A.I. To the theory of wetting. Russ. J. Inorg. Chem. 58, 813–816 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0036023613070231

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