What are some chemical properties of water?

Question

I really need to know! I am teaching an Honors Chemsitry class tomorrow :)

Answer 1

how on earth can you be teaching an honors chemistry class and not know this?

This is Jr high material! and your teaching?

Answer 2

2 hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, it dissolves many substances, and it has a slight charge (which is why Water expands when it freezes). Also, a fun fact: Although water is made of hydrogen and oxygen, those 2 gases explode when combined in nature. As an add on to when someone mentioned it gets slippery when frozen....

Many people believe this happens because a thin top layer of ice melts, creating a slippery surface. However, water is actually slippery when frozen because the 2 hydrogen atoms resting on the oxygen atoms aren't very strong, and tend to wobble. This wobbling creates the slippery-ness.

At a cold enough temperature, the slipperyness will eventually go away, as the hydrogen atoms become too stiff to wobble.

Answer 3

water is amphoteric- that means it can act as an acid or a base

water is a bent structure, it's shape looks like a V.

Water has polar bonds, meaning the electrons are unevenly shared. Thus the oxygen on one molecule is attracted to the hydrogen on the other molecule.

Answer 4

Freezes at 0 degress C boils at 100 C weighs exactly 1 kg per liter.

Kills many people every year
People can't live without it
and it gets slippery when frozen

Answer 5

Very good moderator of temperature...that is one of the reasons the earth doesnt freeze over in the winter and boild in the summer.

Answer 6

2 atoms hydrogen 1 atom oxygen. it's a liquid.

Answer 7

air