What causes surface tension in a liquid?

What causes surface tension in liquids ? name a substance that has a very high surface tension what kinds of?

  • intermolecular forces account for the high value?

  • Answer:

    Actually Yes, the intermolecular forces - thus the metals has one of the biggest surface tensions - see Hg - it has so big surface tension, that it even makes capillary depression. And if dropped on glass, it will try to make a droplet, not spreading around, because of high forces that keep Hg together (its surface tension is 300 times higher than water, I think :))

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