What is viscosity?

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The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to gradual deformation by shear stress or tensile stress. For liquids, it corresponds to the informal concept of "thickness". For example, honey has a much higher viscosity than water.
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resistance to flow is called viscosity like friction in solid similarly viscosity in fluids eg liqiud and gas
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viscosity is the resistance to flow of liquid,,,more the viscosity less is the flow of liquid and vice versa
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the property of the fluid to resist the flow is called viscosity. this property of fluids arise due to the collision of neighboring particles of the fluid. fluids with high viscosity appears as solids.
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