Did you know that the water inside you has previously been inside dinosaurs, bacteria, the oceans. Science journalist Alok Jha explains why water is so incredibly weird.
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Hot water freezes faster because it has less oxygen. At least this is what I've been told, doesn't seem like a mystery
'Water is perhaps the strangest thing in the universe'
Dark Matter: "Hold my beer"
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A 3 minute video so packed with info that it is a source for the wiki page on water, dang!
Boil two equal volumes of water from the same source. Let one of them cool to room temperature in a sealed container and keep the other in a thermos flask while the first is cooling. When the first has cooled to room temperature put the second in a similar container warmed to the temperature in the flask. Now put both in a freezer and start the clock. Which freezes first?
Newton’s law of cooling is false or the BBC peddles complete ßOllοχ and phayk knee-ooze. You decide which.
Only something this strange could support life. Which is even weirder
Not just that in fact, Water should really be considered back as an Universal element Like our ancient philosophers considered it to be among the other four elements of Aether, Fire, earth and Air.
i have always been fascinated by water. how two gases, when combined, can form a liquid never ceases to amaze me. and then if these two gases combine in different ways, you actually get different kinds of water. and if water has no minerals or any thing in it, it can be lethal to drink. apparently water loves company, so as soon as there's some thing else near by, the water immediately attracts it, or is attracted to it.
then there's super-cooled water, which is also really weird, and happens when water can't freeze. when it can't freeze solid, it stays in liquid form some how, but is much colder than the laws of physics would normally allow while retaining its liquid form.
Glass phase
I thought
Stupidity
Was the 2nd most common