Randall Wright1 states that the term “capillarity” in the sense in which I2 use it is a “misnomer.” Wright’s argument that capillarity means “hairlike” does not, I believe, have any direct bearing on the subject, as it is often seen that the original meaning of a word may become obsolete or that the word may gradually assume various meanings, so that the original meaning becomes obscured. However, I use the term to mean: “the effect of the intermolecular attractions when two or more phases interfere.” It might be remarked that only three phases are known, but the meaning...
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