The North our home, the sea our friend #4
Earth exists in a goldilocks zone for life; the temperature is just right for liquid water. We are all here because of the weird and wonderful chemical properties of water. Here are just a few:
- When water becomes solid it floats.
- Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
- Water is a liquid when other chemicals of similar atomic mass are all gases.
- Water is an almost universal solvent.
- Water has a surface tension on which objects can float and on which living things can walk.
- Water can stretch and is put under tension and pulled up microscopic tubes to the top of the world’s largest trees.
Water is the weirdest thing in our world.
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It’s also magnificent as the waves crash on Westray.
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