Which best describes the property of surface tension in the examples pictured here?
a. Neighboring molecules of the liquid bond to each other, forming a flexible atomic sheet at the surface.
b. Molecules at the surface have different properties than atoms surrounded on all sides by other atoms.
c. At a surface, the interaction between air molecules and the fluid create the surface tension.
d. The surface tension pulls molecules out from the center of a liquid to the surface.
e. The surface tension only occurs at high temperatures.
a
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