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Description	Author: Karl Hahn Subject: Illustrative diagram of surface tension forces on a needle floating on the surface of water (shown in crossection). Status: Released to public domain.
Date	2006-10-09 (first version); 2006-10-26 (last version)
Source	Converted to PNG format from GIF version at en.wikipedia; description page is/was here.
Author	Original uploader was Karlhahn at en.wikipedia
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