Querying the sometimes seemingly all-knowing GOOG for define: capillary attraction yields:

Capillary action, capillarity, capillary motion, or wicking refers to two phenomena:

1. The movement of liquids in thin tubes
2. The flow of liquids ...

as per wikipedia, which we all know and agree not to be authoritative, but it's just so easy and.. "there".

what is the world coming to.

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