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Q.Which flower is an example of self cleaning?

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Step 1. Recall Section 16.9(d). Self-cleaning materials are illustrated by the lotus plant (Nelumbo nucifera): although it grows in muddy water, its leaves always appear clean.

Step 2. Explain why. The plant's leaves are superhydrophobic; nanostructures on the lotus leaf surface repel water, and as water rolls off the leaf it carries dirt away with it. …

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