Water

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What is the function of water?
Vital to living organisms, transports substances, helps with temperature control
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Describe water
A reactant in lots of reactions e.g hydrolysis reactions, a solvent, high specific heat capacity, hight latent heat of evaporation, a habitat
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Describe the structure of water
1 x oxygen, 2 x hydrogen joined by shared electrons.
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What is a polar molecule?
A partial negative charge on one side and a partial positive charge on the other side.
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What is hydrogen bonding?
When a slightly negatively charged oxygen atom attracts the slightly positively charged hydrogen atoms of other water molecules
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What is specific heat capacity?
This is the energy needed to raise the temperature of 1g by a substance by 1*c
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Why is this useful?
Water doesn't experience rapid temperature changes which makes it a good habitat because of this
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Why is the high latent heat useful?
Good for cooling things
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What is cohesion and why is it useful?
Attraction between molecules of the same type
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Water's polarity makes it a good solvent
The polarity means that they will dissolve, which is good for humans
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Water's less dense when its solid
Ice floats-useful in humans etc, fish don't freeze under the ice so they don't die
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