Uniqueness of water
Discuss how water has unique properties for a molecule its size, such as a very high boiling point and melting point.
Discuss how water has unique properties for a molecule its size, such as a very high boiling point and melting point.
Discuss how each water molecule has two sources of partial positive charge and two of partial negative charge.
Summarize how the extensive hydrogen bonding requires large amounts of energy to disrupt, and therefore it melts and boils at higher temperatures than other molecules of its relative size.
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Why does water have such unique properties?
Answer preview discuss how water has unique properties for a molecule its size, such as a very high boiling point and melting point.
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