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💧 Surface Tension & Wetting: How Detergents Work

Simulate a water droplet on hydrophobic vs hydrophilic surfaces and add surfactant to watch the Young's-equation contact angle collapse as surface tension falls — from beading to spreading to sheeting.

Washing & Cleaning2DModerate60 FPS💧 Water

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Simulate a 3D water droplet on hydrophobic vs hydrophilic surfaces and add surfactant to watch Young's-equation contact angle collapse as surface tension falls toward the critical micelle concentration.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install