Why water can't get rotten?

Answer 1

There isn't really and living matter in it to decay. It's easier to think of water as a chemical that is perfectly stable, where as a lasagna in the fridge is (or was) living tomatoes, wheat and dairy cow, and can decay. Microbes eat the lasagna, and it decays. Biological changes occur on the cellular level, and it decays. These processes don't happen to water.

Answer 2

Water can get rotten. Try setting a bottle of water out without opening it for a week or too. you will see it turn green. you can't taste it, but it is not good to drink. This is what is called stagnant water,which in laymen terms is rotten. This is caused by the bacteria in the water. Even bleach will turn water "rotten" if it sets for any length of time.

Answer 3

There are many organic materials that will not rot, like fingernails and petroleum. Seeds have been found that are hundreds of years old, and they didn't rot. Animal tissue in formaldehyde doesn't rot. Food sealed in a sterile package doesn't rot.

The process of rotting is a decomposition caused by bacteria digesting the material. If bacteria don't "eat" it, it doesn't rot.

So in order to rot, something must be nutritious to bacteria, and the bacteria must be there, and able to survive in the environment.

Pure water doesn't rot because it is not nutritious to bacteria.

When water changes color or stagnates and gets a bad smell, it is not the water that causes it, it is the microscopic organisms living in it, feeding on other organisms or remains of other organisms.

Answer 4

Water is the chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O: one molecule of water is composed of two hydrogen atoms covalently bonded to a single oxygen atom. Water is a colorless, tasteless, and odorless liquid at ambient temperature and pressure. It is a very important solvent, capable of dissolving many other chemical substances, such as salts, sugars, acids, alkalis, some gases and many organic molecules.

Water is unusual in that it is a liquid under normal conditions, when relationships between other analogous hydrides of oxygen's column in the periodic table suggest it should be a gas, as is hydrogen sulfide. If the periodic table is examined, it will be noted that the elements surrounding oxygen are nitrogen, fluorine, phosphorus, sulfur and chlorine. All of these elements combine with hydrogen to produce gases at normal temperature and pressure. The reason that oxygen forms a liquid is that it is more electronegative than all of these elements (other than fluorine). Oxygen pulls on electrons much more strongly than hydrogen, leaving a net positive charge on the hydrogen atoms, and a net negative charge on the oxygen atom. The presence of a charge on each of these atoms gives each water molecule a net dipole moment. Electrical attraction between water molecules due to this dipole pulls individual molecules closer together, making it more difficult to separate the molecules and therefore raising the boiling point. This attraction is known as hydrogen bonding.

Water has been referred to as the universal solvent, and is the only real pure substance found naturally on Earth in all three states of matter. It is in dynamic equilibrium between the liquid and solid states at standard temperature and pressure. Water can be described as a polar liquid that dissociates disproportionately into the hydronium ion (H3O+(aq)) and an associated hydroxide ion (OH-(aq)).

in short it is really pure and basic , & not organic among all substances. making it incapable of rotting or decomposing

Answer 5

It doesn't technically "rot," but if you leave it out long enough, it'll eventually start growing algae and other unpleasant microorganisms. Also, water that stays out for too long without evaporating will go stagnant. I'm not entirely sure what causes that, but it makes it taste horrible, and it's probably bad for you to drink, too. Bottled water is in a sealed container and therefore isn't exposed to microorganisms or air.

Answer 6

Water (H20) is a simple substance and not an organic substance. Bread and meat can get rotten because it contains carbohydrate, protein, or fat. The process can occur because of microorganism, such as bacteria or fungi come to the bread or meat, consume its carbohydrate or protein to get energy, oftentimes involves chemical reaction. When they get energy, this process produces by-product substances such as certain acids. These by-product substances oftentimes are harmful for our body, and smell and taste bad (perhaps this is the way of nature to warn our body).

Answer 7

It's a simple inert non organic compound. Think of it in the terms of sodium chloride. One is comprised of two gasses, one a gas and a metal. There is nothing to spoil, it takes a complex organic compound to signs of spoilage.

Actually Dayton S. water will break down as it is a compound and not an element (and these can be broken down as well), and may be broken down into it's constituent elements.

Answer 8

The thing about water is that H2O is non-corrosive, it can evaporate, it can freeze, but it will not break down. The only reason it can go bad is if what is in it, like bacteria, or organic material gets in it, it can basically poison the water. Water inherantly cannot go bad, but the things within it can.

Answer 9

water can't get rotten because it it nonliving like a rock. only living things in water can rot

Answer 10

There's nothing organic in it to go rotten much like a rock.