Properties of Water

This property of water is where water molecules have the ablity to stick to other water molecules

• adhesion

• cohesion

• capillary action

• high specific heat

This property of water states that water can dissolve ions and polar molecules but is poor at dissolving nonpolar molecules, such a fats and oils.

• high specific heat

• adhesion

• solid water is less dense than liquid

• universal solvent

Water is a molecule that shares electrons unequally. This leads to oxygen having a slightly negative charge, and hydrogen having a slightly positive charge.

• polarity

• universal solvent

• capillary action

• adhesion

This property of water is when water is cooled to the freezing point and hydrogen bonds readjust causing the water molcules to expand.

• solid water is less dense

• high heat capacity

• adhesion

• cohesion

This property of water is the attractive force between water molecules and different substances

• polarity

• surface tension

• adhesion

• solid water is less dense

This property of water allows water to resist changing its temperature. It releases or absorb relatively large amounts of energy in the form of heat, with only a slight change in temperature.

• high heat capacity

• capillary action

• adhesion

• polarity

This property of water allows water molecules to stick to one another at the surface to create a net or film. This allows insects like water striders to "walk on water".

• solid water is less dense

• universal solvent

• capillary action

• surface tension

This property of water results in the molecules of liquid rising in contact with a solid. It used both the property of adhesion and cohesion. Plants use this to distribute water throughout the whole plant.

• universal solvent

• surface tension

• capillary action

• high specific heat

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