As the temperature decreases, do you expect the surface tension of a liquid to increase, decrease, or stay the same? As the temperature decreases, do you expect the surface tension of a liquid to increase, decrease, or stay the same? decrease increase stay the same

Answer: As temperature decreases, surface tension increases and vice versa as surface tension decreases temperature increases.

Explanation:

What is surface tension?

Surface tension can be defined as the quality of liquid surface that work against the force brought to it, but keeps unwanted matters out of the liquid.

What affect surface tension?

It can be affected by changes in temperature of the liquid, chemicals which affect the molecule that bonds the liquid together and the presence of waste.

Temperature effect on surface tension: When water is an ice and the temperature is increased by boiling the ice the bonding molecules are melted into liquid but when the temperature decrease like putting water in the fridge the tension increases.

Chemical Additions

Adding particular chemical will change the surface tension of the liquid for example adding soup into water.