Adhesive attraction

(Physics)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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The adhesive attraction of water to the paper is strong enough to move the water up the sides of the fibre tubes against the downward pull of gravity.

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