Importance of Water
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Water is everywhere and continues to be a necessary compound of all life, approximately four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered with sea. Even the most simple of organisms that can exist without air could not grow without water. Water does not smell, has no colour and tasteless, yet it is abundant in beneficial properties that we take for granted (1). This report has been produced to discuss not only the structure and physical properties, but also some of the functions that water has in living things.
Chemical Properties: Water can be found in out natural environment in all three states (solid ice, liquid water, gas steam). There are two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom making up the structure of water (H2O). This structure is immensely strong; this energy derives from the powerful force which holds the atoms together. The bonding for water is a covalent type (2).
Hydrogen has a quantum shell surrounding the nucleus that contains just one electron; this shell has enough room for two electrons. Oxygen has two shells surrounding the nucleus, in the oxygen atom the outer shell has six electrons but can accommodate eight (2)...