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Properties of Water and COL CSA
16. . One of water's unique properties is that it has strong surface tension. What do you predict
would happen if water had weak surface tension?
a. Insects would not be able to land on or walk on water.
b. Plants would not be able to draw water from the ground through their roots.
C. Water molecules would attract each other.
d. Water would only be able to dissolve nonpolar substances.

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If water had weak surface tension, insects would not be able to land on or walk on water.

Surface tension is the force acting on the surface of water that makes it to behave like a stretched elastic skin.

Surface tension owes to the intermolecular attraction between water molecules. The molecules at the surface of water are drawn inwards by other molecules causing the molecules at the surface to contract. This surface tension enables insects to land on or walk on water.

So, without surface tension of water, insects would not be able to land on or walk on water.

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