How polarity makes water behave strangely

Polarity can be a bad thing when we’re talking about politics or family drama, but it’s essential to the workings of the chemical world.

That’s especially true for water, whose uneven distribution of positive and negative charges is quite literally the reason that life exists in Earth. It makes everything from our DNA to proteins stay soluble, it helps balance the salts and minerals that are essential to our most core functions, and it’s a sidekick to almost every biochemical reaction.

And it’s not just essential on the smallest scale! Insects use surface tension to walk across its surface, and fish survive frozen winters thanks to its density. It’s no coincidence that water is the key ingredient for life. And it’s polarity that made it so.

Enjoy this lesson by Christina Kleinberg by TEDEducation. Try to overlook the fact that she says “wooter” :)

Source: youtube.com

419 Notes/ Hide

  1. iwillphotosynthesize reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  2. norbertoviale reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  3. theworldisacrucible reblogged this from eatgeekstudy
  4. archaean reblogged this from literatureoftruth
  5. midgetmonkey reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  6. gno-sis reblogged this from skeptv
  7. cognition-and-dissonance reblogged this from laviesupernova
  8. atomicx reblogged this from thescienceofreality and added:
    #brilliant
  9. laviesupernova reblogged this from this-is-somestuff
  10. allana690undercover reblogged this from thescienceofreality
  11. rene-gadee reblogged this from thescienceofreality
  12. this-is-somestuff reblogged this from thescienceofreality
  13. crumpaliciousbutterfingers reblogged this from high-bloods
  14. djtoe reblogged this from paradoxicalparadigms
  15. eia-kjaerlighet reblogged this from thescienceofreality
  16. tonyl-bleue reblogged this from eatgeekstudy
  17. high-bloods reblogged this from thescienceofreality

Recent comments

Blog comments powered by Disqus