Properties of Water
What do you know?
High Heat Capacity In your own words…
I ain’t Absorbs and releases LARGE amounts of heat BEFORE changing temp itself PREVENTS sudden changes in BODY TEMP REDISTRIBUTES heat among body tissues
High Heat of Vaporization What does this mean?
It’s really cool LARGE amt of heat Needed to break H bonds REMOVES heat from surface Of our skin
Polarity How would you explain what this is and why it is important
Cohesive ability to dissolve Transports
Transport Universal solvent http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-polarity-makes-water-behave-strangely-christina-kleinberg
Reactivity What two reactions occurring in our bodies REQUIRE water?
Hydrolysis and Dehydration Synthesis