Is water the only naturally occuring liquid?

Question

....if not...what other natural liquids are there?

Answer 1

there are many naturally occuring liquids

lots of these liquids, in nature, are diluted or mixed with water, but not all of them

the examples of liquids mixed with water are many an easy

your blood has water as the primary solvent but there are many liquid phase (these could be separated from the blood and would still be a liquid) oranic chemicals mixed in it, like testosterone, or adrenaline

liquids without any water mixed with them are a little harder to identify but they exist in nature, often part of plants or animals (I'm not sure if snake venom or rubber plant sap has much water mixed in it, the oils that our skin exudes are non-aqueous)

because there is so much water in the enviroment in general, we rarely find pools of liquids that are not already mixed with water, but virtually all natural water sources have some amount of non-water liquid in them

under the ground where there is less exposure to liquid water we find many organic liquids (like petroleum - crude oil)

off the earth, there are planets and moons where liquid water doesn't exist (too cold) that have other liquids (like ammonia, or methane) depending on the temperature

Answer 2

Besides water, and all solutions of water, there aren't many substances that are naturally liquids at the combinination of pressure and temperature we experience on habitable areas of the Earth. However, most 'natural' compounds will become a liquid under the right conditions. The ground we stand on, for example, is a liquid if you go deep enough into the Earth's crust.

There are some liquids that do more or less occur naturally at normal atmospheric conditions, however. Ethanol, methanol, ammonia, some ethers and esters are just a few (most of the time we artificially induce these chemcials to be made, or make them in a lab, but they DO occur naturally). Of course, none of these substances are anywhere near as common as water, which covers 2/3 of the planet!

Answer 3

But everything given in the first two answers are based on water. How about vegetable oil? It's a liquid and does occur naturally, though not in large quantities without getting it out of plant cells. There are places where crude oil seeps to the surface of the earth, so there's another naturally occurring liquid.

Answer 4

Well, no...there are a multitude of liquids that have water as the solvent. Alcohols and mercury and two things at room temperature are liquids that I can think of off the top of my head. There are several others, I'm sure...just take a look on a chemistry website...or better yet, the Merck index and see what substances are liquids at standard temp and pressure.

Answer 5

Such substances as blood serum, honey, milk, plant sap, etc. are naturally occurring, but they are aqueous solutions. In other words, they are really just water with other ingredients dissolved in it. I assume you are asking about non-aqueous (non-water based) liquids. The most abundant naturally occurring non-aqueous liquid on earth is magma, the liquified core of the planet. However, this is liquid only by virtue of its very high temperature. It is melted rock. The most abundant naturally occurring substance that is liquid at normal surface temperatures is crude oil, from which many other liquids are produced by distillation. Mercury is a liquid element, but usually doesn't occur in nature in its elemental form, but only in solid compounds. Certain amounts of other liquids may be naturally produced, such as alcohols as a byproduct of natural fermentation; however, in nature such substances when produced usually quickly become mixed with water. In fact, such processes as fermentation only take place in the presence of water. On some other planets there are probably other natural non-aqueous liquids like liquid ammonia or liquid methane.

Answer 6

you have have been given this somewhat mixed up. Water isn't an component, it extremely is a compound. And, it relies upon somewhat on what you're calling "room temperature"..... Off the impressive of my head, mercury is a liquid. Bromine is likewise a liquid at room temperature, even though it evaporates notably at as quickly as with the lid off. If the room replaced right into somewhat heat, over approximately 25 tiers Celsius, Gallium is a liquid additionally. as far simply by fact the different 2 bypass, somebody else will could desire to look that one up. i don't be attentive to that off the impressive of my head.

Answer 7

Mercury is a liquid..no water added :)

Magma is liquid rock..Sure it might not be "room temperature" but that wasn't part of the question.

Answer 8

Crude oil is a liquid, so is lava.

Answer 9

It is definitely popular but there is a lot of blood and other body fluids on this earth in animals and sap in plants.

Answer 10

lava is a liquid