Comment on Is water an acid or a base?

• TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I once brought up in a family dinner how incredible and strange water is, and how we don’t really think about it.

  It appears naturally in all three phases, expands when frozen, has a high surface tension, has a high specific heat, and can behave as a mild base or acid. Oh, and all the living stuff has water in it.

  Nobody really understood what I meant except my sister.

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  • JATtho@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do you know about ortho/para-H~2~O? It only gets weirder.

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    • TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Neat, I will be saving this and reading it when I’m less busy… maybe I’ll get back to you on it.

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  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If it makes you feel any better, I totally get it.

    I’ve thought many times how different the universe would be (would complex life on earth even work the same way???) if frozen water became more dense and sank like most frozen substances.

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