{"id":200962,"date":"2024-12-07T10:10:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T16:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/liquid-water-molecules-are-inherently-asymmetric-new-insight-into-the-bonds-between-water-molecules"},"modified":"2024-12-07T10:10:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T16:10:42","slug":"liquid-water-molecules-are-inherently-asymmetric-new-insight-into-the-bonds-between-water-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/liquid-water-molecules-are-inherently-asymmetric-new-insight-into-the-bonds-between-water-molecules","title":{"rendered":"Liquid water molecules are inherently asymmetric: New insight into the bonds between water molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/liquid-water-molecules-are-inherently-asymmetric-new-insight-into-the-bonds-between-water-molecules2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Icebergs float on water because the underlying liquid water has a higher density than the iceberg. Liquid water itself has its highest density at 4\u00b0C\u2014one of the so-called anomalies of water, i.e. properties of liquids that are rarely observed for other liquids.<\/p>\n<p>The origins of these anomalies have long been the subject of scientific research. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have now discovered another piece to the puzzle to explain the special behavior of water.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the anomalous properties of water can be traced to the special interactions between the individual <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/water+molecules\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water molecules <\/a>\u2014the so-called hydrogen bonds. Each water molecule can donate two of these bonds\u2014one from each hydrogen atom\u2014and accept two of them from other, neighboring molecules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icebergs float on water because the underlying liquid water has a higher density than the iceberg. Liquid water itself has its highest density at 4\u00b0C\u2014one of the so-called anomalies of water, i.e. properties of liquids that are rarely observed for other liquids. The origins of these anomalies have long been the subject of scientific research. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}