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Title: Chapter 3 - Water and Life
Description: What are the special properties of water, and how do these properties allow it to be so important to living things?

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Chapter 3: 
Water and Life 
 
Properties of Water 
● Cohesive/Adhesive 
○ High surface tension 
● Moderates Temperature 
○ High heat capacity 
○ High heat of vaporization 
● Expands Upon Freezing 
○ Ice floats in liquid water 
 
Cohesion​
 ­ water molecules are attracted to other water molecules 
Adhesion​
 ­ water is attracted to to other surfaces 
Surface Tension​
 ­ how difficult it is to break the surface of a liquid 
 
Moderates Temperature​
 ­ absorbs heat from warm air and releases heat to cool air 
Specific Heat​
 ­ amount of heat needed to increase temperature 
Evaporative Cooling ​
­ as a liquid evaporates, the remaining surface cools 
 
Expands Upon Freezing​
 ­ hydrogen bonds in water are more ordered, allowing them to 
take up less space 
Ice Floats​
 ­ the larger volume of ice reduces its density, allowing it to float in water 
 
Solute ​
­ substance that gets dissolved in another substance 
Solvent ​
­ substance that dissolves another substance 
 
Water ​
is the solvent of life
...
 
m
Molecules dissolve well in ​
similar ​olecules
...
 


Title: Chapter 3 - Water and Life
Description: What are the special properties of water, and how do these properties allow it to be so important to living things?