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This is Giancoli Answers with Mr. Dychko. With this apparatus surface tension is force divided by 2l and this 2 is here because there's both a top and a bottom surface in that apparatus in figure [10-34]. And the force is 3.4 times 10 to the minus 3 newtons and divide that by 2 times 0.070 meters and that's 0.024 newtons per meter is the surface tension.