Water and Solutions -- for Dirty Laundry: Crash Course Chemistry #7
Dihydrogen monoxide (better know as water) is the key to nearly everything. It falls from the sky, makes up 60% of our bodies, and just about every chemical ...
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It falls from the sky, makes up about 60% of our bodies, and just about every chemical process related to life takes place with it, or in it: dihydrogen monoxide. Without it, none of the chemical reactions that keep you alive would happen. None of the reactions that sustain any life form on earth would happen. Not even the majority of inorganic chemical reactions that shaped the surface of the earth would happen. Water is the key to nearly everything. And one of the reasons it's the key, is because it's really good at dissolving stuff. We need it so bad, that we dump over 180 gallons of it into our bodies every year, and we do that to maintain an aqueous or water based solution inside our cells, because aqueous environments are pretty much the best for cool chemistry. Each and eve...
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It falls from the sky, makes up about 60% of our bodies, and just about every chemical process related to life takes place with it, or in it: dihydrogen monoxide. Without it, none of the chemical reactions that keep you alive would happen. None of the reactions that sustain any life form on earth would happen. Not even the majority of inorganic chemical reactions that shaped the surface of the earth would happen. Water is the key to nearly everything. And one of the reasons it's the key, is because it's really good at dissolving stuff. We need it so bad, that we dump over 180 gallons of it into our bodies every year, and we do that to maintain an aqueous or water based solution inside our cells, because aqueous environments are pretty much the best for cool chemistry. Each and eve...
