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    Water has unique chemical and physical properties that make it essential for life. It has high surface tension and viscosity compared to other liquids due to the hydrogen bonding between water molecules. This bonding also gives water a high heat of vaporization and low vapor pressure. The polarity of the water molecule allows it to dissolve many other substances, earning it the nickname of the "universal solvent." Despite water's small molecular size, its strong hydrogen bonding results in unusually high boiling and freezing points for a compound of its weight. These properties help regulate temperatures vital for ecosystems.

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    Water has unique chemical and physical properties that make it essential for life. It has high surface tension and viscosity compared to other liquids due to the hydrogen bonding between water molecules. This bonding also gives water a high heat of vaporization and low vapor pressure. The polarity of the water molecule allows it to dissolve many other substances, earning it the nickname of the "universal solvent." Despite water's small molecular size, its strong hydrogen bonding results in unusually high boiling and freezing points for a compound of its weight. These properties help regulate temperatures vital for ecosystems.

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    Water has unique chemical and physical properties that make it essential for life. It has high surface tension and viscosity compared to other liquids due to the hydrogen bonding between water molecules. This bonding also gives water a high heat of vaporization and low vapor pressure. The polarity of the water molecule allows it to dissolve many other substances, earning it the nickname of the "universal solvent." Despite water's small molecular size, its strong hydrogen bonding results in unusually high boiling and freezing points for a compound of its weight. These properties help regulate temperatures vital for ecosystems.

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    Water has unique chemical and physical properties that make it essential for life. It has high surface tension and viscosity compared to other liquids due to the hydrogen bonding between water molecules. This bonding also gives water a high heat of vaporization and low vapor pressure. The polarity of the water molecule allows it to dissolve many other substances, earning it the nickname of the "universal solvent." Despite water's small molecular size, its strong hydrogen bonding results in unusually high boiling and freezing points for a compound of its weight. These properties help regulate temperatures vital for ecosystems.

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    Water.

    Water is a colourless, transparent, odourless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the
    basis of the fluids of living organisms.

    "sodium chloride dissolves in water"

    CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF WATER

    1. Surface Tension :

    Besides mercury, water has the highest surface tension for all liquids. Water's high surface tension is
    due to the hydrogen bonding in water molecules. Viscosity is the property of fluid having high resistance
    to flow. We normally think of liquids like honey or motor oil being viscous, but when compared to other
    substances with like structures, water is viscous. Liquids with stronger intermolecular interactions are
    usually more viscous than liquids with weak intermolecular interactions. Cohesion is intermolecular
    forces between like molecules; this is why water molecules are able to hold themselves together in a
    drop. Water molecules are very cohesive because of the molecule's polarity. This is why you can fill a
    glass of water just barely above the rim without it spilling.

    2. Heat of Vaporization

    Water also has an exceptionally high heat of vaporization. Vaporization occurs when a liquid changes to
    a gas, which makes it an endothermic reaction. Water's heat of vaporization is 41 kJ/mol.

    3. Vapor Pressure :

    Vapor pressure is inversely related to intermolecular forces, so those with stronger intermolecular
    forces have a lower vapor pressure. Water has very strong intermolecular forces, hence the low vapor
    pressure, but it's even lower compared to larger molecules with low vapor pressures.

    4. Water as the "Universal Solvent" :

    Because of water's polarity, it is able to dissolve or dissociate many particles. Oxygen has a slightly
    negative charge, while the two hydrogens have a slightly positive charge. The slightly negative particles
    of a compound will be attracted to water's hydrogen atoms, while the slightly positive particles will be
    attracted to water's oxygen molecule; this causes the compound to dissociate. Besides the explanations
    above, we can look to some attributes of a water molecule to provide some more reasons of water's
    uniqueness:

     Forgetting fluorine, oxygen is the most electronegative non-noble gas element, so while forming
    a bond, the electrons are pulled towards the oxygen atom rather than the hydrogen. This
    creates 2 polar bonds, which make the water molecule more polar than the bonds in the other
    hydrides in the group.
     A 104.5° bond angle creates a very strong dipole.
     Water has hydrogen bonding which probably is a vital aspect in waters strong intermolecular
    interaction.

    5. Boiling Point and Freezing Point

    If you look at the periodic table and locate tellurium (atomic number: 52), you find that the boiling
    points of hydrides decrease as molecule size decreases. So the hydride for tellurium: H2Te (hydrogen
    telluride) has a boiling point of -4°C. Moving up, the next hydride would be H2Se (hydrogen selenide)
    with a boiling point of -42°C. One more up and you find that H2S (hydrogen sulfide) has a boiling point at
    -62°C. The next hydride would be H2O (WATER!). And we all know that the boiling point of water is
    100°C. So despite its small molecular weight, water has an incredibly big boiling point. This is because
    water requires more energy to break its hydrogen bonds before it can then begin to boil. The same
    concept is applied to freezing point as well, as seen in the table below. The boiling and freezing points of
    water enable the molecules to be very slow to boil or freeze, this is important to the ecosystems living in
    water. If water was very easy to freeze or boil, drastic changes in the environment and so in oceans or
    lakes would cause all the organisms living in water to die. This is also why sweat is able to cool our
    bodies.

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