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Why Do Dew Drops Do What They Do On Leaves?
ScienceDaily (Jan. 11, 2012) — Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore once wrote, "Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf." Now, a new study is finally offering an explanation for why small dew drops do as Tagore advised and form on the tips, rather than the flat surfaces, of leaves. It appears in ACS' journal Langmuir.
In the study, Martin E. R. Shanahan observes that drops of water have a preference for exactly where they collect on leaves as their surfaces cool in the morning and afternoon. Those droplets, which condense from water vapor -- moisture -- in the air, collect randomly across the surfaces of flat leaves. However, dew drops tend to accumulate at the tips of spindly leaves, even if that means defying gravity by moving upwards. He explains that an inherent "unwillingness" or "lack of necessity" of water drops to move on a dry surface governs their positioning on flat leaves, causing them to stay where they form. Dew's tendency to head to the end of finely pointed leaves, however, sent Shanahan looking for a different explanation.
The answer is based on the fundamental principle of free energy, that everything in nature seeks the lowest possible energy state. Shanahan modeled two types of dew drops on a theoretical (simplified) cone-shaped leaf: a thin, cylindrical sheath of water and a spherical drop centered on the cone's axis. In both cases, he found that the drop lowered its energy by moving toward the point of the leaf.
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The intelligence of flowers by Maurice Maeterlinck
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THEeXchanger- Posts: 1982
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what an interesting thread
- i live in a place with a lot of old ancient herbs etc., in the wilderness
hope this spring, summer and fall to shot some photographs of them
so, people will know, how to recognize them
and, when to harvest them, etc.,
nothing like real sage, in a wild turkey
- i live in a place with a lot of old ancient herbs etc., in the wilderness
hope this spring, summer and fall to shot some photographs of them
so, people will know, how to recognize them
and, when to harvest them, etc.,
nothing like real sage, in a wild turkey
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THEeXchanger wrote:
- i live in a place with a lot of old ancient herbs etc., in the wilderness
hope this spring, summer and fall to shot some photographs of them
so, people will know, how to recognize them
and, when to harvest them, etc.,
What a lovely place you live in
It would be great you share your photos with us Susan
when the time is right .
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This is one of my favourite threads on the internet! 
When I think of my "ideal world", these are the kinds of images I keep in mind.
Love the picture in post #424. I would love to take a stroll there on an autumn day.
When I think of my "ideal world", these are the kinds of images I keep in mind.Love the picture in post #424. I would love to take a stroll there on an autumn day.
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Nenuphar wrote:
Love the picture in post #424. I would love to take a stroll there on an autumn day.
And I would love to accompany you there Nenuphar.
It is always a great pleasure for me to receive your visits here in the garden.
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