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The Biological Significance Of The Properties Of Water.
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The Biological Significance Of The Properties Of Water The human body 15% lipids, 12% proteins but by far the biggest % is water which makes up a massive 70% of the human body. This is the equivalent of 49kg in an average male adult human of mass 70kg. This is a good indication of just how important water is in the human life. Without water we would not be able to life and Earth is therefore the only planet in this galaxy with life as we know it except for Mars where ice has been discovered so water may have been present once. Water is a polar molecule, meaning that it has a positive and a negative pole. This is due to the fact that the water is an oxygen atom covalently bonded to 2 separate hydrogen ions to fill its outer shell by sharing electrons. However in the oxygen nucleus...
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