Water is useful due to its high latent heat of vaporisation for cooling, high specific heat capacity for temperature buffering, cohesion for transport, and its role as a metabolite and solvent in biological reactions.
- large latent heat of vaporisation can be used in cooling - high specific heat capacity buffers changes in temperature - cohesion allows water to be transported in plants - metabolite in condensation and hydrolysis reactions - solvent for metabolic reactions
| Front | What features make water useful? (5) |
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| Back | - large latent heat of vaporisation can be used in cooling - high specific heat capacity buffers changes in temperature - cohesion allows water to be transported in plants - metabolite in condensation and hydrolysis reactions - solvent for metabolic reactions |
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