No matter how much water there is a water droplet stays the same size. Is this something to do with gravity. Once the water droplet gats too heavy the is too much force for it to continue hanging and it falls. It’s just got me bamboozled.
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>a water droplet stays the same size
Droplets do vary in size. What you mean is, if a droplet gets too big, the water has a tendency to split it into smaller droplets. This is always due to a combination of air resistance and gravity. What keeps a droplet or any mass of water together is surface tension. That’s the water molecule’s tendency to stick together. If disturbed by a greater force, that bond breaks down. Gravity is such a force, and so is air resistance.
The strength of the surface tension is only related to the type of liquid, so most water droplets will tend to have around the same size as opposed to liquids with different properties (molar mass, viscosity, etc).
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