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What is the difference between tension and surface tension?

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The main difference between these two is the places where it occurs. Surface tension is defined to a single liquid surface, whereas the interfacial tension is defined to the interface of two immiscible liquids. Surface tension is actually a derivation of interfacial tension where force from the second surface is negligible or zero

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