Properties of Water

Adhesion

The property of water that allows it to "stick" to other substances

Cohesion

the property of water responsible for water's ability to stick to other water molecules

Universal Solvent

used to describe water because it dissolves many substances

Polar molecule

Has a slight positive and slight negative charge

High heat capacity

What property of water explains why coastal areas climates do not fluctuate as severely as further inland?

Solute

This gets dissolved into a solvent

Solvent

This dissolves substances

Ice Floats because..

It is less dense as a solid

Solution

Homogeneous Mixture that is a liquid

Homogeneous Mixture

Mixture where things combined uniform throughout

Heterogeneous Mixture

Mixture where things are combined unevenly

Suspension

Type of liquid where components can be mixed evenly but will settle after time

Hydrogen bond

A weak bond due to positive nature of Hydrogen

Ionic Bond

Giving and taking of electrons

Surface Tension

The top of water is harder to break through because of hydrogen bonds

Capillary Action

When cohesion and adhesion are working together to pull water up a tube-like structure