Rewrite the textbooks on water's surface tension: Air-water interface is negatively charged by the adsorption of hydroxide ions

Researchers in Australia are confident their new research results will make significant differences to the calculations of surface tension of water used by the next generation of atmospheric scientists, biophysicists and engineers of technology like inkjet printers. These latest investigations have clinched a long-standing controversy amongst the physical Chemistry community; the air-water interface is negatively charged by the adsorption of hydroxide ions.

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