Why does the water defy gravity when you pour it?

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The thing that it does sometimes when you poor water from a cup and some of it it just kind of sticks to the outside of it. It makes a mess and I never know how to prevent it.

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Water has a rather special property called surface tension. This is because water wants to stick together so it doesn’t defy gravity but rather the downward forces of gravity is equal or less than the “pulling” force of waters surface tensions (through something called Van der Waals force).

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