The drop
grows heavy
and begins to fall

As it breaks
from a strand
of water,

the drop
shrinks itself
into a sphere.

The drop flattens
then elongates
as it falls

The strand,
meanwhile,
breaks into
tiny droplets.

The impact of the drops
hitting the water causes
a new strand to bounce
back out as another
drop breaks away.

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Because water molecules cling to each other like tiny magnets,

A drop of water can stay in one piece, even as it falls through the air.

When the surface of a drop of water shrinks to its smallest size, the drop forms a sphere. The sphere streches because of the drop's weight and motion, but
The Surface Tension helps keep the drop together, as it it were held in an elastic skin.

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Because water molecules cling to each other like tiny magnets, A drop of water can stay in one piece, even as it falls through the air.

When the surface of a drop of water shrinks to its smallest size, the drop forms a sphere. The sphere streches because of the drop's weight and motion, but The Surface Tension helps keep the drop together, as it it were held in an elastic skin.

Because water molecules cling to each other like tiny magnets,

A drop of water can stay in one piece, even as it falls through the air.

When the surface of a drop of water shrinks to its smallest size, the drop forms a sphere. The sphere streches because of the drop's weight and motion, but
The Surface Tension helps keep the drop together, as it it were held in an elastic skin.