Water, Part III: The Solvent of Life
2 08 2009
Cool and refreshing, water is the stuff of life. Drink up!
It’s time for the thrilling conclusion of our series on water! Water Part III: The Solvent of Life! This one is pretty long, so if you need to, go grab a glass of cool refreshing water to tide you over.
Now, some of what follows isn’t going to make sense unless you’ve read Water Part I. So go do that now if you haven’t. Okay, ready? Great.
In the last post I talked about a few reasons why you should be thankful for hydrogen bonds, namely, that they keep that lovely liquid water around and that they enable plants to bring water up to their highest points. But this stuff doesn’t hold a candle to the #1 Reason You Need to Be Thankful For Hydrogen Bonds.
Categories : Atoms, Biology, Chemistry, Large Molecules, Small molecules, Water
