In my plant physiology class we are discussing the properties of water and how exactly the hydrogen bond properties allow water to interact the world around us and its truly fascinating. Waters hydrogen bonds are easily broken, but they are also very easily remade, meaning it requires alot of energy and heat in order to permenatley excite the molecules and raise the temperature of the water. This phenomenom of raising a substances temperature is called specific heat and in the realm of organic molecules waters specific heat is extremely. Another fascinating property of water cohesion, whihc is its ability to stick to itself via the hydrogen bond network. But its binding partners arent limited to other water molecules. It also has a property of cohesion, which is the ability to bind to other organic molecueles using the same hydrogen bond network. Lastly water is a superb solvent, this is mostly attributed to its polarity and charged complex, the polarity of water means its able to interact and dissolve other polar compounds, which is extremely useful in a lab setting. Overall I've found this weeks in class discussion fascinating, I never knew that water was such a unique compound.
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