Water's high specific heat capacity allows it to resist temperature changes and remain liquid at room temperature, while its lower density as ice, due to hydrogen bonds forming an open lattice, causes it to float.
Water's high specific heat capacity allows it to resist temperature changes and remain liquid at room temperature, while its lower density as ice, due to hydrogen bonds forming an open lattice, causes it to float.
| Front | waters specific heat capacity properties 2.1.2(a) |
|---|---|
| Back | -high SHC (resistence to change in temp) so has high boiling point and is liquid at room temp -water less dense when solid than liquid due to H2 bonds forming -when cooled, H2 bonds fix positions of molecules further apart than average liquid, producing large open structure, and so ice floats not sink |
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