due to surface tension why a liquid tends to decrease its surface area

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The unbalanced attractive forces acting downward tend to draw the surface molecules into the body of the liquid and therefore tend to reduce the surface to min.
Means effect of surface tension is to reduce the area of the surface to minimum

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