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Surface Tension Converter

Convert surface tension between N/m, mN/m, dyne/cm, erg/cm², and pounds-force per foot.

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Enter a value and choose the units. Your answer updates as you type.

Result

1000 Millinewton per meter (mN/m)

Quick reference
  • Newton per meter (N/m)1 base units
  • Millinewton per meter (mN/m)0.001 base units
  • Dyne per centimeter (dyn/cm)0.001 base units
  • Erg per square centimeter (erg/cm²)0.001 base units
  • Pound-force per foot (lbf/ft)14.593902937206362 base units
  • Pound-force per inch (lbf/in)175.12683524647636 base units

About the Surface Tension Converter

Surface tension controls droplets, bubbles, capillary rise, wetting, coating, and microfluidic behavior, so it is important in chemical processing and materials testing. The converter uses Newton per meter (N/m) as its SI reference and retains full factor precision while you work, which avoids mixing dimensional prefixes or customary units in technical calculations.

Enter a value to see an immediate result—for example, 1 Millinewton per meter (mN/m) equals 0.001 Newton per meter (N/m). For adjacent calculations, the Dynamic Viscosity Converter and Pressure Converter provide complementary dimensional checks.

Frequently asked questions

What is the SI reference for surface tension?

This page uses Newton per meter (N/m) as the base unit, so every listed factor is a multiplier to that SI quantity.

When is a surface tension useful?

Surface tension controls droplets, bubbles, capillary rise, wetting, coating, and microfluidic behavior, so it is important in chemical processing and materials testing.

Are these surface tension factors exact?

SI prefixes and defined international units are represented with their standard factors; customary and CGS values are shown to the precision of their published definitions.

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For a related calculation, use Permeability Converter to convert porous-media permeability between square meters, darcy, millidarcy, square centimeters, and square feet. Alternatively, use Kinematic Viscosity Converter to convert kinematic viscosity between m²/s, centistokes, stokes, cm²/s, and square feet per second.

For the underlying method, read Viscosity Explained: Dynamic vs. Kinematic and Why It Matters.