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What keeps the water from spilling over the top of the cup?
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What keeps the water from spilling over the top of the cup?

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Surface tension is the reason. Surface tension holds the water together and acts against what would normally cause the water to fall – gravity – because each molecule of water is attracted to the other water molecules around it.
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what keeps the water from spilling over the top is the surface tension.
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