i have been reading this book and it has opened my eyes a bit about Water...

it behaves quite oddly
Nothing about it can be used to make predictions about what other liquids will do.
If you knew nothing aboput water and based its behaviour on compounds similar to it, like hydrogen selenide or hydrogen sulphide, you would expect it to boil at -93 deg C
and to be a gas at room temperature......wierd!!!!

when it freezes, it Expands by at least another ten percent of its volume, where as most things contract when they freeze making the molecules pack closer together, but water does not, and because it expands, ice floats on water.....weird!!!!, becuase if it did not float, but instead sink, and lakes amd oceans would freeze from the bottom up and without suface ice too hold heat in, the waters warmth would radiate away, leaving it even chillier and creating more ice, etc and so on..until thwe world is a huge ball of ice....wieder!!!
there are 1.3 billion cubic kilometers of water on earth and that is all there will ever be, its a closed system...the water we have been drinking has been around since the world was young...but only 3 % of it is drinkable and only 0.001 % exists in clouds or vapour.



really weird.....

what is it about the behaviour of water that makes it exempt from the laws of chemistry and physics?


weirder and weirder!!!!!