I want to know how water runs electricity though water but i knot find a good answer culd all of you please help me the best person gets 10 points
2006-12-03 06:58:56 · 7 answers · asked by Victor n 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Well, pure water doesn't conduct electricity because there're no free particles in pure water. For a substance to conduct electicity it needs to have mobility of electrons. In metals, for instance, cations (positively charged ions) lie in a regular array and are surrounded by a sea of electrons, which are mobile. Thus, metals conduct electiricty. In water's case, it only conducts electricity if it is not pure. Since even the usual tap water is not pure, it has minerals and ions etc, with the free electron movement, it is able to conduct electricity
2006-12-03 08:00:56 · answer #1 · answered by nisum90 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're asking how does water conduct electricity, actually... it doesn't! Electricity travels through, or is conducted by water only when there is sufficient mineral content (like salt) to allow conduction.
Purified distilled water is actually a very poor conductor of electricity, as compared to mineral water or salt water. Even most tap water has enough minerals and salts to allow conduction.
2006-12-03 07:05:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean "why does water conduct electricity?",
the answer is : It's not the water molecules that conducts electricity. It is the dissolved ions that are freely floating in the water that conducts the electrical charge. Distilled water will not conduct electricity
2006-12-03 07:02:49 · answer #3 · answered by Math-Chem-Physics Teacher 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Electricity actually will not travel through pure water, but because our water has impurities, such as minerals, the electricity travels through the particles in the water.
2006-12-03 07:02:27 · answer #4 · answered by vlalto 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Electricity is the flow of electrons. The electrons will jump from one molecule of "salts or minerals" which are dissolved in the water.. to another. some molecules of minerals need an electron, others have an electron too many, trying to give it up.
Certainly your class has studied "electron shells" and "ions" trying to become stable.
That's why your teacher asked you this question.......
2006-12-03 07:04:07 · answer #5 · answered by GOMEZ LOPEZ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-13 22:29:24 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It goes from particle to particle-those particles are crazy conductive!
Did you know that electricity doesn't travel through pure (like distilled) water? Weird, huh
2006-12-03 07:05:01 · answer #7 · answered by sixgun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋