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What results from hydrogen being at one end of a water molecule and oxygen at the other end?
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∙ 13y ago
They are not attracted to each other because one is polar and one is nonpolar.
Micheal Hoeger
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∙ 13y agoThe top half of the hydrogen atom has a negative charge. The bottom half (where the oxygen atoms are) has a positive. So the negative half of the hydrogen atom attracts with the positive half with the oxygen atoms.
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∙ 12y agoPolarity. The oxygen end is slightly negative and the hydrogen end is slightly positive, thus water has all the properties we a familiar with and bonds easily and tentatively, one water molecule to the other.
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∙ 12y agoOxygen is more electronegative than hydrogen, meaning that in a water molecule the oxygen will carry a partial negative charge and the hydrogens will carry a partial positive charge.
This allows the (partially negative) oxygen to bind to the (partially positive) hydrogen of another water molecule.
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∙ 13y agoA polar molecule. The oxygen end has a slight negative charge and the hydrogen end has a slight positive charge. The molecule is neutral in charge though.
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∙ 9y agowater is atracted to itself because of this
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∙ 13y agoPolar molecules.
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What is it when a water molecule is binding to another water molecule?
Water molecules has the property of being a dipole, which practically means the oxygen atom has a greater attraction of the electrons that the hydrogen atoms. This results in making the oxygen atom fairly negativly charged, while the hydrogen fairly positive. This gives the water molecule one positive end, and one negativ end, and the ability to bind up with themselves, (+)end of one molecule to (-)end of another.We call these bonds Hydrogen bonds.
How is a hydrogen bond different from the covalent bonds that connect each waters molecule's atoms?
The bond between hydrogen and oxygen is covalent, involving a shared pair pf electrons. The bond is polar, with the hydrogen being slightly positively charged and the oxygen slightly negative, Backus of the difference in electronegativity between O and H. The hydrogen bond is an electrostatic attraction between the positively charged H and the negatively charged oxygen atom of another water molecule
Are hydrogen and oxygen a change of state?
If water is being split into hydrogen and oxygen then a change of state (phase change) will occur if the water is in liquid form and the hydrogen and oxygen are evolved as gases. If water vapor is being split, then obviously no change of state occurs. Conversely, solid water in the form of ice could be split into hydrogen and oxygen gas, also undergoing a phase change.
Which kind of electrical charge is found on oxygen atom of a polar water molecule?
A negative charge that exists because of a covalent bond with hydrogen
What data does a sample of pure water irrespective of its source contains 11.1 hydrogen and 88.9 oxygen support?
It might have supported Proust's law or the law of definite composition, or law of constant composition. But unfortunately the data used are not accurate. The correct proportions, based on relative atomic masses of hydrogen and oxygen being 1.008 and 15.999 give the results as 11.2% and 88.8%.
What results the oxygen atom being at one end of a water molecule and the hydrogen atoms being at the other end?
a polar molecules
What results from the oxygen atom being at one end of a water molecule and the hydrogen atoms being at the end?
Polarity. The oxygen end is slightly negative and the hydrogen end is slightly positive, thus water has all the properties we a familiar with and bonds easily and tentatively, one water molecule to the other.
What is the term for a molecule that has two times the amount of hydrogen than that of the oxygen in the molecule?
Water is one such molecule, being H2O. The molecules of sucrose and glucose also have the same two to one ratio of hydrogen to oxygen. Sucrose is C12H22O11, and glucose is C6H12O6.
Why in a water molecule is the oxygen bigger than the hydrogen?
it all depends on how much water is being used
What kind of bond is formed between water molecules?
Hydrogen bonding is usually formed between one lone pair of electrons of the oxygen atom of one water molecule and the hydrogen atom of another water molecule. Hydrogen bonding forms as a result of electro-negativity difference between oxygen atom and hydrogen, with oxygen being more electro-negative.
Which end of the water molecule is attracted to the sodium ion?
Since water is a slightly polar molecule (the hydrogen end being slightly positive and the oxygen ends being slightly negative) the positively charged sodium ion (Na+) will be attracted to the oxygen end of the water molecule.
What kind of charge is found on the oxygen atom of polar water molecule?
In a water molecule, the oxygen atom shares electrons with two hydrogen atoms, but it does not share equally since it has a stronger attraction for electrons than the hydrogen atom does, and the electrons therefore have a greater probability of being close to the oxygen nucleus than to the hydrogen nuclei. As a result, the oxygen atom has a negative charge. The hydrogen atoms are positively charged.
What is the results from the oxygen atom being at one end of the water molecule and the hydrogen atoms being at the other end?
Before trying to answer this, I feel compelled to note that's not really a very good description of the configuration of a water molecule; a water molecule is actually shaped like a very fat V (with the oxygen at the point, and the hydrogen atoms out to the sides). The shape of the water molecule means that it has a net dipole moment, making it polar. The ramifications of this are manifold: it affects solubility, boiling point, melting point, density of the solid phase, and lots of other things.
What makes regions of a water molecule more positive then negative?
Electronegativity differences.There are more protons in an oxygen atom than in a hydrogen atom, so any electrons being shared between them (as in the covalent bond) are more likely to be near the oxygen atom than the hydrogen atoms.This results in a slight net negative charge surrounding the oxygen atom, and slight net positive charges surrounding the hydrogen atoms.
How many elements are in a water molecule?
Two different types: Two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
What are the variables for oxygen BEING slpit into hydrogen?
Oxygen cannot be split into hydrogen.
What is it when a water molecule is binding to another water molecule?
Water molecules has the property of being a dipole, which practically means the oxygen atom has a greater attraction of the electrons that the hydrogen atoms. This results in making the oxygen atom fairly negativly charged, while the hydrogen fairly positive. This gives the water molecule one positive end, and one negativ end, and the ability to bind up with themselves, (+)end of one molecule to (-)end of another.We call these bonds Hydrogen bonds.
