What makes water particles stick together?

Question

I was told by a friend that water is held together via positive and negative magnetism... Sought of like a north and south pole Idea. Perhaps someone could clarify this for me.. Thank You..

Answer 1

Well.. he is sort of right.. it is a BONDING affect between different molecules that have a positive and negative effects.. in tdhe case of water.. it is the Hydrogen molecules and the Oxygen molecules that bond... in other words....These unique properties of water result from the ways in which individual H2O molecules interact with each other. The oxygen is a negative charge and the hydrogen is a positive charged

To find out more about the bonding and the diapoles.. go to this website for a little more information.. it is very interesting about this "miracle" product... water.....

http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=57

Answer 2

All I know is that water is held together by a covalent bond.... Which means that the oxygen and the hydrogen share their valence electrons... Because Hydrogen has 1 valence electron and Oxygen has 6 valence electrons, so each hydrogen needs 1 more valence electron to have a full shell, and the hydrogen needs 2 to have a full shell. So 1+1=2 = full hydrogen and 6+ 2(because there are 2 hydrogens in water) = 8.
Does that help? I wish I could draw it out.... =] enjoy!

Answer 3

It is due to hydrogen bonding. Since hydrogen has only one shell and only one electron in that shell there is a very strong attraction between the hydrogen ion (a single proton) and any other element it bonds with. This is one of the reasons that trans-fats are so bad for your health. The manufacturers take unsaturated fats (those with little or no hydrogens) and hydrogenate them (by adding hydrogen). It requires extra energy to break these bonds and your body would rather store it than process it.

Answer 4

Hydrogen bonding makes water molecules "stick" together. While hydrogen bonds are relatively weak compared to other types of bonds, they are strong enough to give water many unique properties. For example, hydrogen bonds sank the Titanic, and hydrogen bonds allow the Basilisk lizard to walk on water.

Answer 5

I don't know how it works but it's called "polar".

This is what a water molecule looks like: H-O-H
One of the elements of water attracts more so that other molecules stick to it or something like that.

Answer 6

for H2O to form a water droplet, as in rain, I think it needs a particle of something (soot?) for it to start to build up to a droplet. Also as in clouds. Then the molecular bonding can hold it together.

Answer 7

cohesion is a force that sticks em together.
its the strongest force

Answer 8

its probably the molecules that counts... in a manner of slightly cmpact with each other...

Answer 9

the force of cohesion