Properties of Water

• Individual molecules held up well +
• Strong surface tension

• Water attracts other molecules, and it stick to water pretty well
  • If we make water molecules touch another molecules, it will stick to it and start moving
  • Think: a straw — a thin straw could draw up water without additional pressure just by water working its way up using adhesion
• This is how we make "xylum" and "Pholem" happen
  • Water's adhesive force — and adhesive force only — is how water travels upwards from a tree
  • Given that some trees are, em, pretty tall, this means that the capillaries that the water travel in must be very small
  • A Pico-Gauge could be used to measure the pressures within the phorlem

• is wet => Strong tetrahedral H-Bonds
• is sticky => Has both Cohesive and Adhesive Properties
• have a high specific heat capacity.
  • Strong bonds
  • Resistant to change

Water has high solubility

• Many things could dissolve in water
• Makes chemical processes quite easily
• Quite versatile — could dissolve stuff easily

• In hydrophillic senarios, water will to "puddle out" ("Wetting") — adheses to the surface
• In hydrophobic senarios, water leverage its cohesion properties to create spheres