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3.3. Practise reading of the following words and word-combinations from the text. Be sure you know the translation.

a water drop, Earth’s forces, a perfect sphere, physical properties, chemical qualities, no taste or smell, water’s chemical description, is bound to two atoms, hydrogen, oxygen, a positive or a negative charge, tend to attract each other, water is sticky, the universal solvent, wherever water goes, either through the ground or through our bodies, neither acidic nor basic, the only natural substance, liquid, solid and gas states, solid form, is less dense than.

3.4. Read the text “Water's Chemical and Physical Properties” and do the following:

a) State the main microtopics of the text;

b) Give Ukrainian equivalents of the chemical and physical concepts: H20, pH of 7, 32 º Fahrenheit, 100 º Celsius, positively / negatively charged, molecule, atom, solvent, acidic, basic, boiling / freezing point.

c) Translate the text into Ukrainian.

Text a. Water's chemical and physical properties.

What are the physical and chemical properties of water that make it so unique and necessary for living things? Pure water is colorless and has no taste or smell. But the hidden qualities of water make it a most interesting subject.

You probably know water's chemical description is H20. As the diagram to the left shows, one atom of oxygen is bound to two atoms of hydrogen, The hydrogen atoms are "attached" to one side of the oxygen atom, and a water molecule has a positive charge on the side where the hydrogen atoms are and a negative charge on the other side, where the oxygen atom is. Since opposite electrical charges attract, water molecules tend to attract each other, making water kind of "sticky". As the right-side diagram shows, the side with the hydrogen atoms (positive charge) attracts the oxygen side (negative charge) of a different water molecule.

All this water molecules clump together. This is why water drops are, in fact, drops! If it wasn't for some of Earth's forces, such as gravity, a drop of water would be ball shaped – a perfect sphere. Even if it doesn't form a perfect sphere on Earth, we should be happy water is sticky.

Water is called the "universal solvent" because it dissolves more substances than any other liquid. This means that wherever water goes, either through the ground or through our bodies, it takes along valuable chemicals, minerals, and nutrients.

Pure water has a neutral pH of 7, which is neither acidic nor basic.

Water is unique in that it is the only natural substance that is found in all three states – liquid, solid (ice), and gas (steam) – at the temperatures normally found on Earth. Earth's water is constantly interacting, changing, and in movement.

Water freezes at 0 º on the Celsius scale (32 º Fahrenheit) (F) and boils at 100 º C (212° F). In fact, water's freezing and boiling points are the baseline with which temperature is measured: 0° on the Celsius scale is waters freezing point, and 100° is water's boiling point. Water is unusual in that the solid form, ice, is less dense than the liquid form, which is why ice floats.

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