Solved cryptogram
A water molecule is bent rather than straight, and nearly everything odd about water follows.
Chemistry Facts, sourced to OpenStax, Rice University.
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What it means
Two hydrogens on one oxygen could have been arranged in a line. They are not, because the oxygen also carries two pairs of electrons that take up room and push the hydrogens down to an angle near one hundred and five degrees. That asymmetry leaves one end of the molecule slightly positive and the other slightly negative, and a molecule with two ends sticks to its neighbors. Ice floating, water dissolving so much, and rain forming beads all trace back to that angle.
The claim comes from OpenStax, Rice University.
- SourceOpenStax, Rice University
- CollectionChemistry Facts
- Difficultyhard
- Length77 letters, 20 unique
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