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Named after James Jurin, who discovered it between 1718 and 1719.
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Jurin
's
law
The simplest
analysis
of
capillary action
, stating that the
maximum
height
of a
liquid
in a capillary
tube
is
inversely proportional
to the tube's
diameter
.
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