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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 91, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.196104
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We study the spreading of viscous nonvolatile liquids on smooth horizontal substrates using a phase-modulated interference microscope with sufficient dynamic range to enable the simultaneous measurement of both the inner (microscopic) length scale and the outer (macroscopic) flow scale in addition to the intermediate matching region. The resulting measurements of both the apparent contact angle and the lateral scale of the precursor wetting film agree quantitatively with theoretical predictions for a van der Waal's liquid over a wide range of capillary numbers.
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