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* Cohesion * Adhesion * Capillary Action * High Specific Heat (resists temperature change)
* Ability to dissolve most substances ("the solvent of life") * Evaporative cooling * Buoyancy of ice
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoHydrogen bonding in water gives it its high surface tension. It also is the reason why ice floats in water as when it freezes, the molecules arrange in a lattice that is less dense than the molecules in liquid form. Hydrogen bonding also is the reason why water has a high heat capacity since the bonds hold water molecules together when heat is added.
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What is attraction between water particles?
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Why are hydrogen bonds important for life?
Hydrogen bonding is responsible to maintain liquid state of fluids including water in living bodies other wise the fluids must be converted in gaseous state and living bodies should be dry or dead.
An example of a hydrogen bond is the bond between?
A common example of hydrogen bonding is the one between water molecules.Hydrogen bonding is an intermolecular type of bonding, so it occurs when the hydrogen of one molecule is attracted to the lone pairs of either Oxygen, Nitrogen or Fluorine because of their high electronegativity. Since water has two hydrogen atoms bonded to an oxygen atom with lone pairs, the hydrogen bonds occur when a hydrogen of one water molecule is attracted to the lone pairs on another water molecule.what else can you give me on hydrogenHydrogen bonding takes place between the hydrogen and oxygen.
Does hydrogen give off bad gases when you burn it?
No. The only product of burning hydrogen is water vapor.
A liquid compound of hydrogen and oxygen?
A mixture of hydrogen and oxygen would be a highly flammable gaseous mixture. If ignited, the mixture would burn, explode, and form water vapor. Water is not a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen but a compound.
What kind of bonds give water it's important properties of adhesion cohesion and specific heat?
Hydrogen Bonds
Why is it Important for water molecules to form hydrogen bonds with other water molecules?
Hydrogen bonds are what give water its amazing abilities of cohesion, adhesion, and surface tension. Cohesion is what makes water molecules stick together. Think about watching raindrops trickle down a window. When they touch each other, they combine into one droplet. That is the hydrogen part of a water molecule forming a bond with the oxygen part of another water molecule. Adhesion is what allows water molecules to stick to other substances, due to the aforementioned hydrogen bonds. Surface tension is what allows some insects to walk on water. If you look closely at them, you can see the surface of the water dip where the insects' legs touch the water. The water molecules are still being held together by the hydrogen bonds; however, if you or I were to try to walk on water, our weight would cause the hydrogen bonds to break, and we would fall in.
How do metallic bonds give metal their properties?
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Why do you think water is the universal solvent?
Water is considered the universal solvent because the hydrogen bonds in water give it many unique properties. When hydrogen and oxygen bond to form water, there is a partial change in charge. The oxygen becomes partially negative and the hydrogen becomes partially positive. Ionic bonds dissolve because the metal loses an electron when it bonds to the nonmetal, so there is a change in charges (they become ions). The metal becomes a cation and is attracted to the oxygen and the nonmetal becomes an anion and attracts the hydrogen. Water should be considered the universal solvent because it dissolves many things because of the reason above. Water can dissolve all polar substances and some nonpolar substances.
What is attraction between water particles?
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Describe the biological significance of the cohesiveness of water?
Well, one really big and well known reason is that it allows water to be transported through plants. The sun exaporates water and cohesion allows the water to be sucked up to the leaves from the bottom even with gravity pulling down on it because of the constantly reformed hydrogen bonds.
What give water special properties such as cohesion?
Hydrogen bond
What part of an acids chemical formula is responsible for its acidic properties?
Hydrogen ions give acids their acidic properties.
What properties give water such a high specific temperature?
The polar properties of water give it such a high specific temperature.
What attracts water molecules to one another?
It is called surface tension. Somehow the water molecules are "magnetic" to each other. Hydrogen bonds are the primary intermolecular forces responsible for the unusually high cohesion forces (this is the cause behind surface tension) of water. The H-O bonds in the water molecules are highly polarized because of the large electronegativity differences between oxygen and hydrogen and there is a partial negative charge on the oxygen and a partial positive charge on the hydrogen. These partial charges are still able to attract each other and these electric attractions give rise to the high cohesion of water. Other compounds that exhibit this phenomenon of hydrogen bonding include ethanol and ammonia. Biological macromolecules also use hydrogen bonds to maintain their strucutres. For example, the two strands of DNA are held together by hydrogen bonds.
Why are hydrogen bonds important for life?
Hydrogen bonding is responsible to maintain liquid state of fluids including water in living bodies other wise the fluids must be converted in gaseous state and living bodies should be dry or dead.
What is the type of bond between carbon hydrogen and oxygen atoms in organic molecules is it covalent or ionic bond?
Bonds within the water molecule:Hydrogen and oxygen bond covalently. Nevertheless, due to oxygen being more electronegative than the hydrogen molecules, a net negative charge is held by the oxygen atom and positive charges are held by the hydrogen atoms. This leads us toBonds between water molecules:Individual molecules of water bond with a hydrogen bond. The charges give way to an electrical attraction (or dipole) that also bonds the water molecules together.
