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Water's cohesive properties are due to hydrogen bonding between water molecules. This attraction allows water molecules to stick together, creating surface tension and giving water its ability to form droplets. Water's adhesive properties are the result of hydrogen bonding between water and other molecules, allowing water to adhere to surfaces such as glass or plant tissues.

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Is water cohesive or adhesive?

Water is both cohesive and adhesive. Cohesion refers to water molecules sticking to each other, creating surface tension. Adhesion refers to water molecules sticking to other substances, such as glass or plant tissues.


Is the interaction between wax paper and water cohesive or adhesive?

The interaction between wax paper and water is adhesive. Adhesive forces are when two different substances stick together, whereas cohesive forces are when the same substance sticks together. In this case, the water molecules are attracted to the wax paper, causing them to adhere to each other.


What makes water both adhesive and cohesive?

Water is both adhesive and cohesive due to its polar nature. Water molecules are polar, with a slight positive charge on the hydrogen atoms and a slight negative charge on the oxygen atom. This polarity allows water molecules to attract and stick to other substances (adhesion) and to each other (cohesion).


What is an easy way to remember adhesive and cohesive?

Adhesive is the ability of a substance to stick to other surfaces, like glue sticking to paper. Cohesive is the ability of a substance to stick to itself, like water droplets sticking to each other. Remember "A" for adhesive (sticks to other surfaces) and "C" for cohesive (sticks to itself).


When water is in a container the surface of the water is curved this curve is call?

Meniscus is the curve at the surface of a liquid in a cylinder. It is caused by the adhesive and cohesive properties of water molecules. (Meniscus was incorrectly spelled in an earlier answer as "miniscus.")

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What is the difference between water's cohesive and adhesive chemical properties and explain how each property benefits life on earth?

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If water spreads out on a glass plate is this an example or cohesive or adhesive force?

Both, the water molecules are cohesive to each other, and the outer water molecules are adhesive to the table surface.


Is water cohesive or adhesive?

Water is both cohesive and adhesive. Cohesion refers to water molecules sticking to each other, creating surface tension. Adhesion refers to water molecules sticking to other substances, such as glass or plant tissues.


The ability of water to rise in small openings?

This ability is called capillary action, which occurs due to the cohesive and adhesive properties of water molecules. These properties allow water to be drawn up into small spaces, such as in plant roots or in a thin tube.


2 How can you explain Cohesion and adhesion in term of water molecules?

Water has both cohesive and adhesive forces. They are similar.The cohesive of water describes how the molecules of water are attracted to one another. We observe the cohesive forces of water when we see a drop of water sitting on a surface. The water does not spread because the molecules are attracted to one another. Surface tension of water is due to its cohesive properties.The cohesive forces of water are due to hydrogen bonding between molecules.Adhesive properties of water are how the molecules are attracted to other substances. We observe the adhesive forces of water when we see the edge of water in a glass is attracted up on the sides of the glass. This is most apparent when the diameter of the glass vessel is less than a centimetre. It is called a meniscus. Trees use this adhesive property of water to help suck water up from the ground. If the diameter of the glass is small enough, as in a glass capillary, the water will rise up the tube by itself due to adhesive forces.


Is the interaction between wax paper and water cohesive or adhesive?

The interaction between wax paper and water is adhesive. Adhesive forces are when two different substances stick together, whereas cohesive forces are when the same substance sticks together. In this case, the water molecules are attracted to the wax paper, causing them to adhere to each other.


Why is water both adhesive and cohesive?

Cohesion in water is the water being 'sticky' or attracted to itself. Adhesion in water is when the water is 'sticky' or attacted to other surfaces. Water is cohesive and adhesive because of it's properties. The oxyogen and hydrogen molecules are bonded together and are polar. Beacuse the molecules are polar the particales are therefore attracted to each other from negative to positive end (cohesion), but are also atracted to other particles in other surfaces, again positive to negative poles (adhesion). It's very important that water be both cohesive and adhesive for being good for solutions and other functions.


Water beads up on wax paper because its cohesive forces are greater than the adhesive forces?

Yes, water beads up on wax paper because its cohesive forces are greater than the adhesive forces.


Can you give some sentences using the word cohesive?

Water molecules are both cohesive and adhesive: they can stick together or stick to other surfaces.


A force that pulls water up slowing its downward movement is?

Capillary actioncapillary action. - apex


Why does water drop spread on glass surface while mercury does not?

Water has stronger adhesive forces than adhesive forses. Mercury on the other hand has stronger cohesive forces than adhesive. cohesive forces hold molecules of the same substance together , vice-versa for adhesive forces


What makes water adhesive?

cohesion-- Water molecules stick to each other. adhesion-- Water molecules stick to other molecules. Water is a polar molecule because of oxygen is more electronegative. Hydrogen bonds create surface tension and result it water's cohesive and adhesive properties. Hydrophobic = repel water Hydropholic = affinity for water. ...... hahaha XD