When a fountain pen overflows, we soak the excess ink using a blotting paper. It does does help similarly with cotton. Why?

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Blotting paper or cotton used has the property of absorption and it absorbs the excess ink. The particle size of the above said material is such a way that the absorbed ink occupies that intermolecular spaces.

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