In the water molecule, the oxygen and hydrogen atoms share electrons in covalent bonds. There are a total of 10 protons and 10 electrons, so the water molecule is neutral. The electron cloud model ...

The Earth is alive because of liquid water and the success of our human story is intimately connected to our relationship with this simple molecule. But the growth of our civilisations has created ...

This particle diagram represents water or, to use its chemical formula, H₂O which is a compound of the elements hydrogen and oxygen. In one molecule of water, there are two hydrogen atoms and ...

Water bubbles formed at the nanometric scale have just been observed for the first time. This discovery could revolutionize ...

And since embarking on this journey, I am now starting to see this molecule everywhere. We call it the water lens. Look through it and you’ll see water inside everything that lives. You’ll see ...

Sometimes when it snows we’ll get those picturesque flakes. However, other times, it seems like it’s just pellets falling from the sky. So what gives? Why is ...

We think of Earth as the “blue” planet. More than 70 percent of it is covered by water. But 97 percent of this water is in the oceans and 2 percent is locked in glaciers and ice caps ...

One molecule of a substance doesn’t have the characteristics of that substance. For example, one molecule of water ( H 2 0) would not be liquid and would not put out a fire. The idea is that Linus ...

Using nothing but water and said olive oil, he managed to calculate the size of a single olive oil molecule as being 1.63 nanometers in length. To achieve this feat, he took 0.81 mg of olive oil ...