The weirdness of water, Part 1 of 2
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What Makes Water So Weird?
Water has something called a hydrogen bond, which is at the root of many of these unusual properties. It's the hydrogen bonds that make it weird. So when you get lots of water molecules together, you've got positively charged legs, negatively charged ears. The legs and ears start sticking together. That's how these hydrogen bonds move around, stretch and relax. They flick on and off in a very rapid time scale, like a strobe light flicking on and off,. And so these hydrogen bonds are sort of flicking around the liquid system all the time. I feel like you may be anthropomorphizing this a little bit, but keep going. Go with me.
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