What is the natural shape of a blob of water?

Question

We say that the shape of a liquid is that of its ontainer. But w/ no container and no gravity, what is the natural shape of a blob of water?

Answer 1

a sphere with the water surface tension holding it together.

Answer 2

Let me preface this by saying that I don't know the correct answer to this and that this is a complete shot in the dark. But I'd venture to guess that it's a sphere because I think water molecules are cohesive, which would tend to make a "blob" of water want to take the shape having the least surface area.

Answer 3

Droplet form. Even without gravity water will form droplets, because of it's natural cohesive properties.

Water molecules are polar like a magnet. One end tends to be positively electrically charged, and one end tends to be negative, because of electron balancing. This helps make water conductive. It also holds water molecules together to form droplets. Alcohol is something non cohesive, which is why it spreads out and evaporates so easily, while mercury is highly cohesive which is why it's nearly solid and takes a lot of energy to change it's temperature. Temperature change is a change in the speed of molecules, so if your molecules stick together well, temperature change happens less easily.

Answer 4

Water has no shape. With no container and no gravity it would just be a blob you could have 100's of water blobs floating around and none of them would look the same.

Answer 5

It would be spherical because every thing that has mass has gravity. So the blob of water would be spherical because it has mass and there for all the molecules will attract each other to the centre sort of like a planet but in liquid form.

Answer 6

In a micro-gravity situation, the surface tension of the water will create a sphere. Under the guidelines you set, that would be the only acceptable answer.

Answer 7

Just round like a blob, like you said. At least I always thought.

Answer 8

The natural shape of a blob of water is a blob shape.

Answer 9

Blob shaped

Answer 10

Spherical
In the book mentioned below is interesting Q&A about space shuttle.
candle light will also burn in spherical shape for a few seconds and die off.

Answer 11

It is round. Oxygen bonds to Hydrogen with a covalent bond. H2O molecules bind to fellow molecules with a "hydrogen bond." This hydrogen bond is polar, which means it is like a magnet, attracted to others like it. This is called cohesion. The cohesive properties of water molecule would cause it to be perfectly round if it were not subjected to gravity or container.