Water
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How to Account for the High Boiling Point of Water
Water is a liquid in our ambient temperatures because of its high boiling point. To melt sodium chloride, you need about 800 degrees C to turn it into a liquid. You can put a teaspoon of salt into a cup of water, and your water doesn't boil up as there's 800 degrees worth of heat coming out of the system. This is because the water is able to surround each iron, and so for the positive iron, you have the negative part of the water surrounds it. For the negative iron, you've got the positive part of the Water molecule that has stuck themselves onto the iron. And these water molecules are actually very special because now they don't behave like normal, ordinary free
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