Timeline for A hair (single hair) straightened on its own when it fell on a wet surface. How?
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| Aug 13 at 16:22 | answer | added | niels nielsen | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 13 at 14:24 | comment | added | naturallyInconsistent | Also, there is surface tension and other effects. If the water is wetting the hair, there can literally be some force pulling on the hair from the water, and that can also be mildly relevant. | |
| Aug 13 at 13:18 | comment | added | Solomon Slow | IDK the full answer, but human hairs have structure, and that structure includes some bonds that break when the hair is wet and re-form when the hair is dry, and other bonds that are unaffected by water. | |
| Aug 13 at 11:35 | history | asked | Ruu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |