If You Were to Place a 1-Meter Capillary Tube in a Source

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Short Answer

If you were to place a 1-meter capillary tube in a source of water, it would draw a small amount of water up the tube a relatively short distance.What critical forces work to draw water up trees that are missing from the capillary tube experiment?

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