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Water and Life
Water and Life
• Structure of water
• Unusual physicochemical properties of water
• Hydrogen bond
• Osmosis
• Ionization in aqueous solutions and pH
Structure of Water
Tetrahedral arrangement of
the outer shell electron pairs
around the oxygen atom
Why?
Physical Properties of Water
Why?
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Hydrogen bonds
A proton on one water molecule is
attracted to a lone pair on an
oxygen atom in another water
molecule
Hydrogen bonds
• Non-covalent interactions
• Weak bonds
(crystal lattice)
Hydrogen bonds
• Affinity
• Specificity / Selectivity
Problems
(kPa)
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