Re: What is the maximum size for a drop of water?

On 31 Aug 2006 09:45:11 -0700, "rev.goetz" <jimgoetz316@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

In some cases, combining 2 drops of water make a bigger drop of water.
But what is the maximum size for a drop of water? Seriously, I assume
that there is some physical constraint for the size of a drop of water.


The problem, as has already been mentioned, is the drop breaking up by
wind shearing forces as it falls through air. I seem to recall
astronauts playing with enormous globules of water floating in zero
gravity. Surface tension holds it together, but is a rather weak
force especially as the surface area grows more slowly with drop size
than the inertial or gravitational disruptive forces on the mass.


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