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Why does the surface enegy increase on dispersion of a large water drop into smaller droplets?

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When a large water drop disperses into smaller water droplets, the total surface area of the small water droplets becomes greater than the surface area of the large water drop. As the surface energy increases with increase in surface area, dispersion of a large water dropo into small droplets leads to an increase in surface.
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