{"id":84,"date":"2022-02-07T21:33:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T02:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/biology1190chemistry\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=84"},"modified":"2022-04-23T23:25:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T03:25:34","slug":"the-structure-of-water","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/biology1190chemistry\/chapter\/the-structure-of-water\/","title":{"raw":"The structure of water","rendered":"The structure of water"},"content":{"raw":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/biology1190chemistry\/chapter\/covalent-bonds#covalent-bonds\">Recall: water (H<sub>2<\/sub>O) is a compound consisting of only two elements: one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms<\/a>. Oxygen is more electronegative than hydrogen; therefore, <strong>polar<\/strong> <strong>covalent<\/strong> <strong>bonds<\/strong> hold the atoms within water molecules together. The oxygen atom pulls with greater force on the shared electrons with hydrogen, resulting in a partial negative charge (\u03b4-) on the oxygen atom. Each of the hydrogen atoms possess partial positive charges (\u03b4+). In a solution of pure water, the partial negative charge on the oxygen is attracted to the partial positive charges on <em>other<\/em> water molecules, forming <strong>hydrogen bonds between water molecules<\/strong>. The hydrogen bonds between water molecules are responsible for all the properties of water.\r\n\r\n<a id=\"chapter3-properties-of-water\"><\/a>The properties of water include:\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Cohesion<\/li>\r\n \t<li>High heat capacity<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Expansion upon freezing<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Versatility as a solvent<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/biology1190chemistry\/chapter\/covalent-bonds#covalent-bonds\">Recall: water (H<sub>2<\/sub>O) is a compound consisting of only two elements: one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms<\/a>. Oxygen is more electronegative than hydrogen; therefore, <strong>polar<\/strong> <strong>covalent<\/strong> <strong>bonds<\/strong> hold the atoms within water molecules together. The oxygen atom pulls with greater force on the shared electrons with hydrogen, resulting in a partial negative charge (\u03b4-) on the oxygen atom. Each of the hydrogen atoms possess partial positive charges (\u03b4+). In a solution of pure water, the partial negative charge on the oxygen is attracted to the partial positive charges on <em>other<\/em> water molecules, forming <strong>hydrogen bonds between water molecules<\/strong>. The hydrogen bonds between water molecules are responsible for all the properties of water.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"chapter3-properties-of-water\"><\/a>The properties of water include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Cohesion<\/li>\n<li>High heat capacity<\/li>\n<li>Expansion upon freezing<\/li>\n<li>Versatility as a solvent<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1456,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-84","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":82,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/biology1190chemistry\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/biology1190chemistry\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/biology1190chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/biology1190chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/biology1190chemistry\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/biology1190chemistry\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/84\/revisions\/401"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/biology1190chemistry\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/82"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/biology1190chemistry\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/84\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/biology1190chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/biology1190chemistry\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/biology1190chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/biology1190chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}