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Explain why some oil spread uniformly on water, when other floats as drops?

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Surface tension of oil is less than that of water. When oil is dropped on the surface of water, the force of surface tension of water being larger than that of oil, stretches the oil drops on all sides. Hence the oil spreads over the surface of water.
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