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Capillary action is the result of adhesion. Which aspect of water is responsible for this?

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Answer: hydrogen bonds between water and another substance

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Hydrogen bond, also known and written as H-bond, is a weak type of bond that are covalently bound to a more electronegative atom or group, most especially the second-row elements, in the present of another electronegative atom with ion pair electron to form a dipole -dipole attraction.

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