For 10 points--name this physical process utilized by plants in which water is drawn upward in a thin tube.
John Leslie first correctly explained this phenomenon in 1802, stating that the attraction on a thin stratum of a liquid is normal to another surface. Two years later, Thomas Young connected it to surface tension, observing that the angle of contact between a liquid surface and a solid was constant. Occurring when the forces between molecules of a solid and a liquid are more powerful than the cohesive forces of a liquid, it explains the formation of a meniscus. For 10 points--name this physical process utilized by plants in which water is drawn upward in a thin tube.
John Leslie first correctly explained this phenomenon in 1802, stating that the attraction on a thin stratum of a liquid is normal to another surface.
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