Friday, June 08, 2007

Water and Ice: Miracle Properties

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Water and Ice: Miracle Properties


Water or a water molecule is very unique or is almost a miracle.

One well known unique feature of water is that it becomes lighter when it is frozen; thus ice floats on water. Such a case is very rare in the nature; most of other molecules get heavier when frozen than in a liquid state.

In addition, at four degrees Celsius, the volume of water gets the smallest with an identical mass. At four degrees Celsius, a relative density of water reaches a maximum. (At zero degrees Celsius, water becomes ice. F = (C x 9/5) + 32, for your conversion to Fahrenheit.)

However, no exact explanation has been ever made with mathematical expressions on why the volume of water gets the smallest at four degrees Celsius.

Average-distance-of-two-water-molecules = Physical-interaction (T);
When T = 4, the average distance or a volume gets minimum.

Anyway, as water is heavier than ice, in winter a pond can have a ceiling of ice with water under it down to the bottom in which fish can survive.

If ice is heavier than water, ice sinks and a pond gets frozen from the bottom up to the surface in a time sequence, making the pond one big mass of ice where no fish can survive.

According to a Japanese scientist, this natural law shows how the God is great in His Creation of the universe.

Put simply, without this property of water, biological evolution on the earth would not result in the emergence of mankind.

(Nearly 70% of young man's body is water, while nearly 50% of an old man's body is water. As Japanese are so sensitive to quality of water, there are so many beautiful women in Japan, according to a theory. Even if you are a Cleopatra, you may like to taste Japanese brand-name spring water. Water is also a key to taste of Japanese dish.)
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If you can invent a method to take out a hydrogen molecule (H2) from a water molecule (H2O) at very low costs, you can change the world.

In that case, we do not need any other fuels for generation of electricity. All we have to have is a water tank in a car and a house to get power for driving a motor, an engine, or electric and electronic circuits. You do not need oil, coal, and bio fuels for these purposes; instead, seawater may become a main power source. And environment of the earth will be protected.
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If you can invent a method to change seawater into freshwater or drinking water at very low costs, a billion people in the world will be free from shortage of water. Even the whole desert in the Middle East and South Asia can be converted into agricultural fields.
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Indeed water is a key to survival of mankind.

In addition, when and how water, now abundant on the earth, was created is still unknown, though it is likely that the uncountable number of comets carried water to the earth. However, how water is foamed in the space, probably near Jupiter, is still unknown.

Frankly speaking over a cup of coffee, for example, we do not know something so important for our future about water.

(You had better taste high-quality of soft water, used for green tea, in Japan.)


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