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Which of the following property of water can be used to explain the spherical shape of rain droplets?

(a) Viscosity (b) Surface tension

(c) Critical phenomena (d) Pressure

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Answer: (b) Surface tension

The spherical shape of rain droplets is due to surface tension. The lowest energy state of a liquid will be when the surface area is minimum. Surface tension tries to decrease the surface area of the liquid to the minimum. The rain droplets are spherical because for a given volume, a sphere has minimum surface area.

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