Physical Properties of Water and Ice
Physical Properties of Water and Ice
Physical Properties of Water and Ice
• Some of the physical properties of water and ice are exceptional, and a
list of these is presented in Table 1-2.
Exceptional physical properties of
water
High specific heat values of water
– Specific heat: the amount of heat, measured in calories, required to raise the
temperature of one gram of a substance by one Celsius degree.
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Interaction of water with non-polar
substances
As a result, water forms a tightly hydrogen bonded
cage (clatherate cage)
The formation of clatherate cage is an entropy cost for
the water and means that the dissolution reaction does
not proceed.