water: Media

Videos

The chemistry of water
An overview of the chemical structure of water molecules.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
water harvesting
Researchers invent a device that can harvest drinkable water from desert air.
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Which has a lower freezing point, salt water or fresh water?
Learn why fresh water and seawater have different freezing points.
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splitting water
A catalyst that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen.
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Experiment: Dissolving M&M's candy coating with different liquids
Watch an experiment on dissolving the candy coating on M&M'S.
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Follow water as it cycles through the air, land, lakes and rivers, and oceans
Overview of water moving through the hydrologic cycle, or water cycle: it evaporates...
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Discover how glucose and oxygen produced during photosynthesis in plants helps during respiration in animals
Learn about the role of photosynthesis in glucose and oxygen production in plants....
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Learn how the Sun warms moist air near the ground and causes it to rise and condense on dust particles
Dust and other aerosols suspended in the atmosphere provide the surfaces upon which...
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Understand the process and the factors involved in cloud formation
The process of cloud formation relies on several factors, including the rate of vaporization...
Video: © MinuteEarth (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Test whether solutions formed by ionic or covalent bonds show more electrical resistance
Conducting electric current in a solution of electrolytes.
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Study the evaporation process of water from Earth's surface into the sky where water vapour forms clouds
How does water vapor enter Earth's atmosphere?
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How to boost energy without caffeine
How to increase alertness without caffeine, and the chemistry of why these methods...
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Know about the project “MK:Smart”, a smartphone appl to help residents of Milton Keynes manage and use water more efficiently
Learn about a proposed smartphone application to help residents of Milton Keynes,...
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Why is seawater so salty?
An explanation of why seawater is salty.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Understand sublimation, where a substance changes directly from solid to gas without going through the liquid state of matter
Sublimation is the conversion of a substance from the solid to the gaseous state...
Video: © MinuteEarth (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Explore surface tension and how it varies from one liquid to another
Learn about surface tension and compare the surface tensions of different liquids,...
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Images

water rapids, Niagara Falls, Canada
Water is the most plentiful compound on Earth and is essential to life. Although...
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polar bear on ice floe
Polar bear on an ice floe in the Svalbard archipelago. The sight of ice floating...
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diagram of the hydrologic cycle of water
In the hydrologic cycle, water is transferred between the land surface, the ocean,...
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Hoover Dam
The Hoover Dam on the Colorado River at the border of Nevada and Arizona demonstrates...
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diagram of a water treatment system
Water treatment systems are important for desalinating seawater so it can be used...
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water molecule
A water molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. A single oxygen...
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water droplets
Water is a polar molecule and is attracted to other polar molecules. Thus, droplets,...
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hydration of a sodium ion
The hydration of a sodium ion.
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Earth
The predominance of water on Earth is apparent in a photograph taken by the Galileo...
NASA/JPL
boiling
Water at its boiling point.
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wave
A wave in water.
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Dispersal of several types of seeds.
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Photosynthesis
Diagram of photosynthesis showing how water, light, and carbon dioxide are absorbed...
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Mars
Global map of Mars in epithermal (intermediate-energy) neutrons created from data...
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/Los Alamos National Laboratories
water stress projections
World map of projected water stress by country in 2040 under business-as-usual scenarios.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
pure water and temperature
Figure 1: Relationship between the density of pure water and temperature.
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absorption coefficient for liquid water
Figure 3: The absorption coefficient for liquid water as a function of frequency.
From J.D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, copyright © 1975 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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hydrologic cycle
This diagram shows how, in the hydrologic cycle, water is transferred between the...
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hydrolysis of an ester
Reaction of methyl acetate and water demonstrating the hydrolysis of an ester.
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mechanisms of enzymatic action
Mechanisms of enzymatic action (see text).
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molecular orbital energy-level diagrams
Figure 8: Molecular orbital energy-level diagrams for (A) beryllium hydride, BeH2,...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
ethanol production
Addition reaction of ethylene (C2H4) with water (H2O)...
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State (liquid, vapour, or both) of a fixed mass of water under varying conditions...
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cryogenic region
The cryogenic temperature range.
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