Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
The Chemistry
of Water
Lecture Presentations by
Nicole Tunbridge and
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick
The Molecule That Supports All of Life
δ+
δ+
δ–
δ+
δ– δ+
δ–
δ+
H2O
Adhesion
Two types of
water-conducting
cells
Direction Cohesion
of water 300 µm
movement
H2O
H2O
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Figure 3.3a
Two types of
water-conducting
cells
300 µm
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Animation: Water Transport in Plants
Ice:
Hydrogen bonds
are stable
Greenland
Pacific walrus
Alaska
Black Canada
guillemots
Sea ice in Sept. 2014
Ice lost from Sept. 1979 to Sept. 2014
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Water: The Solvent of Life
Na+
–
+
+ –
– +
– –
Na+
–
+ +
CI– CI–
+
–
– +
–
+
–
–
δ+
δ– δ–
δ+
Dark streaks
+ –
H H
O H O O H O
H H H H
2 H2O Hydronium Hydroxide
ion (H3O+) ion (OH–)
1
Battery acid
Increasingly Acidic
2 Gastric juice (in stomach),
lemon juice
9
[H+] < [OH–]
10
Milk of magnesia
11
Household ammonia
12
Basic
solution Household
13 bleach
Oven cleaner
14
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Buffers
CO2
H2CO3 H+ + HCO3–
H+ + CO32– HCO3–
20
10
0
220 240 260 280
[CO32–] (µmol/kg of seawater)
Data from C. Langdon et al., Effect of calcium carbonate saturation state on the calcification
rate of an experimental coral reef, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 14:639–654 (2000).
δ–
δ+
δ+ δ–
δ– δ+
δ+ δ–
0
Acidic
+ –
[H ] > [OH ]
+
Acids donate H in
aqueous solutions.
Neutral
+ –
[H ] = [OH ] 7
–
Bases donate OH
+
or accept H in
Basic aqueous solutions.
+ –
[H ] < [OH ]