Nutrients dissolved in water are carried to upper parts of plants by tiny tubes partly because of the capillary effect. determine how high the water solution will rise in a tree in a 0.0026-mm-diameter tube as a result of the capillary effect. treat the solution as water at 20°c with a contact angle of 26°. the surface tension of water at 20°c is σs = 0.073 n/m. take the density of water to be 1000 kg/m3.