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The Science of Creativity & What You Never Knew About the Periodic Table of Elements

Something You Should Know

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Water Is Weird and Unique

Chemists can take elements, combine them into useful mater s that we then go out and use. When you combine hydrogen and sulphur, which is very similar to oxygen, you do get a gas. You get hydro sulphide. Water is weird and unique because of how the hydrogen and oxygen interact. The oxygen is very selfish, so it will suck a negativity away from the hydrogens and concentrate it. And it's that clumping that makes water a liquid and makes water wet, because it wants to stick together, rather than bounce around.

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