Water And Its Importance

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All of these things combined help to sustain life and keep it constantly evolving. In the next couple of pages, we are going to go into detail of how it does this.
Water consists of two hydrogen atoms that are joined to one oxygen atom by covalent bonds. These bonds are polar bonds. The partial charges on different parts of water molecules produce weak attractive forces called hydrogen bonds. The hydrogen bonds are formed between the hydrogen of one water molecule and the oxygen of other molecules. Due to hydrogen bonding, water molecules will stick together. In a liquid form, hydrogen bonds of water are very weak and then reform constantly. This causes water to bond with multiple partners, making water more structurally sound than many other liquids. Therefore, these hydrogen bonds hold the substance together and have cohesion.
Because of the hydrogen bonds that interconnect individual molecules, water has high cohesion. Cohesion is the binding of like molecules. This ...

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bugs and insects have made the tops of ponds their home.
Water is also an extremely good solvent. It is capable of dissolving a wide range of substances, especially salts. Chemists found that it works better than anything does as a solvent. Lucky for many organisms and us it is not a universal solvent, if it was we would cease to exist.
A crystal of table salt is held together by the electrical attraction between positively charged sodium ions and negatively charged ions. The oxygen parts of the water molecules are negatively charged and cling to sodium cations. The hydrogen parts of the water molecules are positively charged and are attracted to the chloride anions. Because of this, ...

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