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Burning hydrogen in oxygen causes the water to form instantly.
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What happens when oxygen is prepared from hydrogen peroxide without adding a catalyst?
Hydrogen peroxide purchased from a store or science supply house has been stabilized so that expected loss due to spontaneous decomposition into oxygen and water is less than 3% per year. Without adding a catalyst, you will have to wait a very long time to collect the oxygen from a sample of hydrogen peroxide.
What does sodium do in water?
The unstable nature of sodium and other alkali metals makes it fun to throw in water. Sodium rips apart the oxygen and hydrogen atoms that form water, thus converting water into hydrogen and oxygen. Then, the immense heat generated by the reaction will ignite the hydrogen, fusing it with oxygen to form water (water atoms is made out of one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms), and also at that time the fire made by the hydrogen that was set aflame will create that big explosion and fire.
What causes water to display such strong hydrogen bonding?
When you put hydrogen and oxygen together, the electrons spend most of their time on oxygen since it is more electronegative than hydrogen. This causes there to be a "partial charge" on both hydrogen and oxygen. Since oxygen has the electrons spending more time on it, it is more negative than hydrogen. So in H2O, the hydrogens are slightly more positive than the oxygens. When water molecules come near each other, the slightly positive hydrogens are then attracted to the slightly negative oxygens, and you end up having hydrogen bonding.
How water is physically different from the elements that makes up the compound?
Water is h20 which is 2 oxygen atoms and one hydrogen atom to every bit of water. hydrogen and oxygen are a gas at the time oxygen is made...well as far as i know anyways...but I'm just a very intellegent year 8 student from London!
What happens when shared electrons between hydrogen and oxygen spend more time orbiting the oxygen than the hydrogen and what effect does this have on water molecules?
If you think of it in terms of time, the electrons always spend more on the oxygen. This creates polar bonds, and as the molecule is not symmetrical, it means that the whole molecule is polar.
True or false Water is an example of a polar molecule?
True. Water is slightly negative on the oxygen end and slightly positive on the hydrogen's end of the molecule. This is because oxygen is much more electronegative than hydrogen, so the electrons in the covalent bond spend more time around the oxygen.
Can cars run on water instead of gas?
No. To convert it to "Hydrogen" requires a fuel cell and appropriate oxygen / hydrogen separator components. Technology has not reached that point of evolution at this time.
Why water is a polar molecule?
Oxygen is more electronegative than hydrogen - meaning the electrons they share will spend more time near the oxygen. This causes the oxygen to have a partial negative charge, and the hydrogens to have a partial positive charge - making water polar.
Why is water considered to be a neutral substance?
A water molecule is partially charged due to the difference in electronegavities of hydrogen and oxygen. Water has a neutral chemical nature because the oxygen atom in the water molecule tend to pull the electrons from the hydrogen two hydrogen atoms thus spend most of their time arround oxygen. This causes the oxygen to have a partial negative charge which is 2- and each of the hydrogen atom become partially positively charged (the hydrogen partial charges sum up to 2+).These charges cancel (-2+2= 0) each other hence the chemical nature of water is neutral.
Why dont hydrogen and oxygen atoms share electrons equally in a water molecule?
Because the electronegativity of oxygen is about 3.5 and the electronegativity of hydrogen is about 2.5. So, the electrons shared in this polar covalent bond spend more time in the orbitals around oxygen that the orbitals around hydrogen giving the molecule slightly negative and positive ends.
What are the partial charges in a water molecule?
The Oxygen molecule and Hydrogen molecules have different electronegativity (due to position on Periodic Table). As Oxygen is more electronegative it draws the negatively charged electrons towards itself. This makes the hydrogen atoms more positive and hence the partial charges.
What happens to the properties of oxygen when oxygen bonds with hydrogen form water?
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