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Oil flows upward in the wick of a lantern because of the liquid property called

A. capillarity.
B. meniscusity.
C. viscosity.
D. density.

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Capillarity The state of being capillary; the attraction and repulsion of molecules on the surface of a liquid in contact with a solid, as the walls of it's container ,which results in the rise or fall of a liquid when in narrow tubes or fibers, or in the wetting of a solid by a liquid.
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