The world as we know it would not be the same without water. If every lake, river, and ocean were emptied and filled with something other than water, life itself would not exist. This is due to water’s unique molecular structure and arrangement due to its bonds. Water is a molecule made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom: H2O. The hydrogen atoms have a partial positive charge and the oxygen atom has a partial negative charge. In water’s molecular structure, there are two unshared pairs of electrons, which cause the hydrogen atoms to bend downward, causing water’s bent tetrahedral shape. The kind of bond that holds water together is called a hydrogen bond. A hydrogen bond is formed between electronegative atoms of one molecule and hydrogens that are bound to electronegative atoms of another molecule. The hydrogen bonds in water form between the oxygen of one water molecule and a hydrogen atom of another water molecule. This molecular structure is what allows water to possess the distinctive properties that it does.
One of water’s most important properties is its polarity, which is due to the unequal sharing of electrons in the covalent bond. This causes water to be neutral as a whole, but with one end, the hydrogen side, positively charged, and the other end, the oxygen side, negatively charged. Each end is attracted to the opposite charged end of another water molecule. This, in turn, is what is responsible for the stickiness, or cohesion, between the molecules. This cohesion of water molecules causes water’s property of capillary action, which is its ability of water to move upward in small spaces. Examples of this is in plants, where the capillary action allows water to move up fibres of a plant for it to surviv...
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...er dissolve. An unsaturated solution is one that contains less quantity of solute than what can be dissolved at room temperature. When more solute is added into an unsaturated solution, the solute dissolves. Lastly, a supersaturated solution is a solution that contains the maximum amount of solute at a raised temperature. When more solute is added into a supersaturated solution, crystals will form.
Water makes up about 70% of the earth and about 77% of the human body. 96.5% of the water on earth is found in oceans, 2.5% is fresh water in lakes and rivers, and the final 1% is other saline water. Clearly, water, if not the most, is one of the most important things on our planet. Water is essential to all forms of life, and without it, there would be no trees, no animals, no people, no earth, and no life. So, what would the earth be like without water? Nonexistent.
Every year, there are about 100 million Sharks killed, ultimately for its commercial success. Their fins are used as the main ingredient for a dish so-called Shark soup. However, many are unaware of the actual importance of Sharks' existence on Earth. They do a number of things to control and balance aquatic life down below, which in return affects how we live on the surface. Sharks have existed in our world for over 400 million years, if they were to suddenly disappear for industrial purposes, much problems will be encountered throughout the world. We must preserve the lives of Sharks, for many reasons most importantly that shark hunting is morally wrong, it may provide economic failure in a given time, and it may serve a critical unbalance of a healthy environmental state.
In a phenomenon termed the “hydrophobic effect”, 4 surfactants act the way they do in
The Effect of Water Concentration on the Mass of Potato Tissue Aim: The aim of this investigation is to discover the effect of water concentration on the mass of potato tissue, and also to investigate the movement of osmosis through potato tissue. Scientific Knowledge: When a substance such as a sugar dissolves in water, the sugar molecules attract some of the water molecules and stop them moving freely. This, in effect, reduces the concentration of water molecules.
If a plant cell is places in a hypotonic solution the cell has a lower water concentration to that of the solution. Water will move into the cell by osmosis from a high water concentration outside the cell to a lower water concentration inside the cell through a selectively permeable membrane. The cell becomes turbid
Water has a great number of roles in living organisms, this is largely to do with the structure and covalent bonding in a single water molecule, and between water molecules. Around 75% of the earth is covered in water, and it is reffered to as the most important Biochemical. Its chemical symbol is: H2O In a water molecule there are two bonding pairs and two non-bonding pairs of electrons. These four pairs of electrons repel one another, forming a tetrahedral pattern.
Water is a polar molecule. A water molecule has a negative pole exposed on the oxygen atom and two positive poles exposed on the hydrogen atoms. The negative ends of the hydrogen atoms bond with the positive end of the oxygen atom. Water molecules exist in a bent shape. This allows for water to be a universal solvent. Water can dissolve many common solids and liquids.
There are several characteristics that water possesses that are essential to life on Earth. Four of them are cohesion and adhesion, ability to moderate temperature, expansion upon freezing, and versatility as a solvent. The first part, cohesion, is the attraction between molecules of the same kind. Water molecules have strong cohesive behavior because they have the ability to form hydrogen bonds with each other. Cohesive behavior is what is responsible for surface tension, which is when stress or tension is placed upon a liquid’s surface and it resists rupture. This occurs because water molecules on the surface will form hydrogen bonds with their neighbors, the same as the other water molecules further within the liquid. The molecules on the surface however, since the are exposed to the air on one side will have fewer neighboring water molecules available to bond with. Therefore, they will form stronger bonds with the neighbors that are available. Surface tension is responsible for allowing insects to walk across the top of water and mate and feed
Osmosis is the passage of water molecules from a weaker solution to a stronger solution through a partially permeable membrane. A partially permeable membrane only allows small molecules to pass through, so the larger molecules remain in the solution they originated in. Solute molecule [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Water molecule [IMAGE] The water molecules move into the more concentrated solution. When water enters a plant cell it swells up. The water pushes against the cell wall and the cell eventually contains all that it can hold.
The attraction between two or more atoms to formulate a chemical substance, this bond is due to the electrostatic force of attraction between electrons of opposite charges, or this bond is due to a dipole attraction is called a chemical bond.
Each water molecule consists of one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms. The oxygen atom (or the apex of the water molecule) bears a slight electronegative charge while hydrogen possesses a more positive one. Because opposite charges attract, the water molecules are drawn together. When an oxygen atom is linked to a neighboring molecule's hydrogen atom, a bond called a hydrogen bond is formed. In an ice crystal the hydrogen bonds to give the shape of the crystal so that the grid of molecules surrounds relatively to large spaces. In a liquid form, water has no such spaces; so ice is less dense and will float on liquid water. If not for this, great bodies of water would freeze from the bottom up without the insulation of a top layer of ice and all life in the water would die.
There are so many benefits of water that sometimes we do not even look at the cost of it. Some of the benefits of water can be the taste, health, and convenience. When drinking this water we never look at the effects of it. We do not always benefit from the plastic water bottle. We should consider the environment, and how it may be harming it. What is it that actually makes the water so good and worth buying? How much we can save from no longer using these bottles. An example of this can be seen in the New York Times, even though there are so many good benefits to water, we as Americans never really look at the cost of it, “meanwhile, if you choose to get your recommended eight glasses a day from bottled water, you could spend up to $1,400 annually. The same amount of tap water would cost about 49 cents” (New York Times 20). When looking at these numbers that is really not a lot spent on water, but it is still a lot. Also this is a year not even month to month, in one year just on one person this amount is spent, this is not even for a whole entire family. Therefore the benefits of bottled water do not outweigh the cost.
From these properties of bonds we will see that there are two fundamental types of bonds--covalent and ionic. Covalent bonding represents a situation of about equal sharing of the electrons between nuclei in the bond. Covalent bonds are formed between atoms of approximately equal electronegativity. Because each atom has near equal pull for the electrons in the bond, the electrons are not completely transferred from one atom to another. When the difference in electronegativity between the two atoms in a bond is large, the more electronegative atom can strip an electron off of the less electronegative one to form a negatively charged anion and a positively charged cation. The two ions are held together in an ionic bond because the oppositely charged ions attract each other as described by Coulomb's Law.
A naked male figure rested upon a stone dais, within a small room with stone walls. The dais was cracked at the base, causing it to slant down towards the floor. But the floor couldn't be seen, as murky water had filled the room, up to the figure's feet. His eyes opened, a breath of air filled his lungs.
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Water is the most vital part of life. Water is needed from humans, to plants and other organisms, and to do basically everything. Water allows our bodily functions to work and to remove waste from our bodies. Plants need water to grow, and humans need plants to gr...