Water is an odourless, tasteless, transparent liquid at room temperature
Water is wet
Water covers about 70 percent of the earth’s surface in the oceans, lakes, rivers, and glaciers
The ancient Egyptian Heliopolitan creation story recounts that the sun-god Atum (Re) reposed in the primordial ocean (Nun)
Ninety-seven percent of the water on the planet is in the form of salt water. Only 3 percent is fresh, and two-thirds of that is ice
Chemically, water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, its molecule consists of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen – H2O
The physical and chemical properties of water are extraordinarily complicated and incompletely understood Read more