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What is the biological significance of water?
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What is the biological significance of water? Water is the most available compound on earth. Many of us take it for granted. Although it is the basis of life, that is just the beginning of water as a useful chemical. In fact water is useful in more ways than most of us ever think about. Everyday, chemists discover new uses for what is one of the things most taken for granted. Although water is abundant, it is a very simple compound with a complex set of properties. Nearly everything about water is somehow unusual or contradictory. Water has a formula of H2O which means it has two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen in every molecule. Water's melting and boiling points (Zero and 100 degrees Celsius respectively) are higher than would be expected based on similar compounds. It is unusually viscous based on its comparatively small molecular weight, this...
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