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name         Dagul
status       educator
age          50s

Question -   What is Potassium surface tension?
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Dagul,

Potassium is a chemically reactive metal that is solid at room
temperature. It melts at 63.4 C. I do not know the value of the surface
tension of the liquid because it would not be the same for all
temperatures above its melting point.

Regards,
ProfHoff
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Potassium melts at 63.25 C. The surface tension (dyne-cm = ergs/cm^2) of
liquid potassium between 70 - 713 C. is reported to be: s.t. =
115.51 -0.0653*t(C.).
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.

Vince Calder

The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is the ultimate book for this 
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