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Re: nowhere of water droplets?

You can heat water to boiling in zero g but only if the water is completely enclosed in a system and the system is heated, but yet there is a problem because once you heat the volume to boiling you can't open it without it exploding into space : )

As for why water droplets form teardrops in gravity wells, they form a tear drop for many many reasons, predominantly though it is drag that forms them into tear drops. The drag only affects the outer shell of the spherical drop. Thus pulling it in 'skins'. Of course gravity pulls the center down without any drag, thus the tear drop shape.
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