The importance of Water
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The importance of Water Water, the most abundant compound on the planet, is a material, which is essential for all living organisms. Its uses in all living things cover a huge variety of everyday functions, which are important to the continuity of the organism. Water has obvious familiar properties, its colourless; It's tasteless; It's odourless; It feels wet; It's distinctive in sound when dripping from a faucet or crashing as a wave; It dissolves nearly everything; It exists in three forms: liquid, solid, gas; It can absorb a large amount of heat; It sticks together into beads or drops; It's part of every living organism on the planet. Water's unique properties are largely a result of its simple composition and structure. Water is composed of two hydrogen atoms bound to one oxygen atom. The two hydrogen atoms are smaller the smallest atom there is, in fact, and they rest on...

