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wetting

ability of a liquid to maintain contact with a solid surface, resulting from intermolecular interactions when the two are brought together
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wetting

Summary

wetting ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (579 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • wetting is a type of adhesion[2].
  • wetting is a type of surface chemistry[3].
  • wetting's Commons category is recorded as Wetting[4].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include adhesion[2] and surface chemistry[3].

Why It Matters

wetting ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (579 views/month).[1] wetting has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[5] wetting is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[6]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_wetting_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{wetting}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/wetting}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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  1. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → adhesion, surface chemistry
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007556034105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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