Chapter 11: Properties of Water Flashcards
What is water’s usual properties?
It expands on freezing
TWO properties of water?
- Relatively high melting and boiling temperatures, compare to other group 16 elements and other hydrides.
What can water absorb?
Water can absorb relatively large amount of heat with a correspondingly low temperature rise.
Where is water used for due to the large amount of heat it absorbs?
Uses in coolant in car radiators and evaporation of sweat cools the body and regulates body temperature.
What is the water molecule made of?
Two hydrogen covalently bonded to one oxygen atom.
What happens to water 25 degree?
It is colourless, transparent and odourless liquid.
What happens 0 degress and 100 degress?
It freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.
What are the properties that make water crucial for life?
Their polar nature and hydrogen bonding between the water molecules.
What type of intermolecular BOND is water?
Diperson force ( quite weak) and hydrogen bonding - attract each other very closely ( big three and hydrogen )
why is it dipole
Due to different electronegativites of the atoms in H2O..
Charge for water molecule?
Atom gaining greater share of bonding electrons ( delta negative = oxygen.
Low electronegativity ( hydrogen ) becomes positively charges/ Delta positive.
What do the differences in charge in the ends of a molecule produce?
A polar molecule.
What happens with the more stronger electrostatic attraction?
The closer the molecules become, and the stronger the resulting intermolecular bonds.
What does hydrogen bonding significantly affect?
Melting and boiling points and other physical properties of many compounds - such as water.
What does melting and boiling point depend on?
The strength of the intermolecular bonding between the molecules.
What is needed to break water bonds?
More heat is needed to let the molecule gain sufficient kinetic energy and to break free of the hydrogen bonding.
WHAT is boiling point?
Temperature to change from liquid to gas. Thus the input of energy is required to cause this change of state.
Endothermic?
LIQUID -> GAS
Process enabling the molecules to gain sufficient energy to break the intermolecular bonds. this the stronger the intermolecular bond, the higher the boiling temp.
Why the process of exothermic?
LIQUID -> SOLID
Water molecules in liquid state has more energy and move quickly than water molecule in ice. To change state from liquid to ice, energy MUST BE REMOVED.
process of exothermic?
LIQUID -> SOLID
water to ice
- temp decreases due to energy being removed
- molecule starts to move slowly
- forms a crystalline lattice ( usually in bonds of tetrahedral arrangements. )
Why does ice float on water?
Since water expands on freezing, it is less dense as a solid.
ARRANGEMENT OF ICE
all bonded ( oxygen to hydrogen - in a hexagon shape )
ARRANGEMENT OF WATER
Slightly bonded ( dotted lines ) , spread out . forms hydrogen bonding like a tetrahedral.
ARRANGEMENT OF STEAM
Seperate bonds