Why do my Cheerios in milk act like magnets with different polarities causing them to repel or attract each other?

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Why do my Cheerios in milk act like magnets with different polarities causing them to repel or attract each other?

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Isn’t this adhesion and cohesion at work. The same thing that helps water creep up soil and not stay at water level.

Water likes to stick to itself on a small scale. It has to do with the tension held by water droplets and it’s want to absorb into other materials.

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