An individual droplet of water placed on the tabletop will basically form a spherical shape as shown in diagram A. If we then add a tiny drop of detergent using some type of pipette onto that droplet of water, that droplet of water will basically break and collapse its spherical shape and will flatten out and spread out along the surface of the table as shown in diagram B. The question is, why does this actually take place? How does our detergent actually break and cause the water droplet to actually collapse its shape? So let's begin with diagram A. And let's actually answer why the water actually forms that spherical shape in the first place.