Ever wonder why high humidity makes the heat feel worse, or why homemade frozen fruits go mushy, and how nutrients rise from the soil even in 100-meter-tall trees? It's all about water's amazing hydrogen bonding power rooted in its unique structure. So let's dive in! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:20 Water molecuar structure 1:25 Why do water molecules bend? | sp3 hybridization of oxygen 3:07 Hydrogen bonds 4:16 Adhesion/cohesion 5:13 Surface tension 5:40 What holds the sweat on your face in droplets? 6:09 Temperature 8:02 Why not heat, but humidity? 8:54 Ice 11:16 Why do fruits become mushy after freezing? 11:57 Water as a solvent 13:58 Why doesn't a polar cotton towel dissolve in the washing machine? 14:31 What we learned today 15:33 Outro Inst: @gingerbiology CC pictures: -Seal Lysogeny, Weaned harp seal pup, CC BY-SA 4.0 -Baikal © Sergey Pesterev / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0, Lake Baikal in winter, CC BY-SA 4.0 -Sea kallerna, Atlantic near Faroe Islands, CC BY-SA 4.0 -Michael Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons -PD, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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