界かい面めん張ちょう力りょく

noun

interfacial tension

Technical term in physics and chemistry for the tension at the interface between two immiscible phases, such as liquid-liquid or liquid-gas.

• 界かい面めん張ちょう力りょくは、液えき体たいと気き体たいの境きょう界かいで働はたらく力ちからです。

  Interfacial tension is the force acting at the boundary between a liquid and a gas.

• この実じっ験けんでは界かい面めん張ちょう力りょくを測そく定ていした。

  In this experiment, we measured interfacial tension.