Water: A wonder liquid

SWARA KULKARNI-9D
 WATER…
• Water is an inorganic, transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly
Colorless chemical substance, which is the main constituent
of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms in which it
acts as a solvent.
• It is vital for all known forms of life, even though it provides
no calories or organic nutrients. 

• Its chemical formula is H2O, meaning that each of its molecules contains

one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms, connected by covalent bonds. Two
hydrogen atoms are attached to one oxygen atom at an angle of 104.45°.

• "Water" is the name of the liquid state of H2O at standard conditions for
temperature and pressure.
 Chemical and physical properties:

• Water is a polar inorganic compound that is at room

temperature a tasteless and odorless liquid, nearly colorless with a hint of blue.
• This simplest hydrogen chalcogenide is by far the most studied chemical
compound and is described as the "universal solvent" for its ability to dissolve
many substances.
•  Water is the only common substance to exist as a solid, liquid, and gas in
normal terrestrial conditions.
• water as found in nature almost always includes various dissolved substances,
and special steps are required to obtain chemically pure water.
Three states of
Water….
 Density
• Water differs from most liquids in that it becomes less dense as it freezes.
• In 1 atm pressure, it reaches its maximum density of
1,000 kg/m3 (62.43 lb/cu ft.) at 3.98 °C (39.16 °F).
• The density of ice is 917 kg/m3 (57.25 lb/cu ft.), an expansion of 9%.
• This expansion can exert enormous pressure, bursting pipes and cracking
rocks {see Frost weathering}.
• In a lake or ocean, water at 4 °C (39.2 °F) sinks to the bottom, and ice forms
on the surface, floating on the liquid water. 
• This ice insulates the water below, preventing it from freezing solid.
 Triple and critical points
• On a pressure/temperature phase diagram, there are
curves separating solid from vapor, vapor from liquid,
and liquid from solid. These meet at a single point
called the triple point, where all three phases can
coexist.
• The water vapor phase curve terminates at 647.096 K
(373.946 °C; 705.103 °F) and 22.064 mega Pascal
(3,200.1 psi; 217.75 atm). This is known as the critical
point.
  Phases of ice and water
• The normal form of ice on the surface of Earth is Ice, a phase that
forms crystals with hexagonal symmetry.
• Another with cubic crystalline symmetry, Ice, can occur in the
upper atmosphere. As the pressure increases, ice forms
other crystal structures.
•  As of 2019, 17 have been experimentally confirmed and several
more are predicted theoretically.
• When sandwiched between layers of graphene, ice forms a square
lattice.