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Water - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Surface tension is a property defined as a liquid's surface's ability to withstand an external force, which is manifested in its tendency at rest to shrink to the minimum surface area possible. It is an effect occurring within the surface layer of water that causes it to act like stretched elastic membrane.
      - Water is characterized with a high surface tension. This is due to the high attraction between its oxygen and hydrogen atoms that forms hydrogen bonding. Water has higher surface tension than most other liquids.
      - Water's high surface tension allows denser objects to float on its surface.
    - - Cohesion is defined as the attraction between molecules of the same kind.
      - Water is highly cohesive due to the presence of hydrogen bonding. Water's cohesion is highest among non-metallic liquids. This property is manifested in their ability to clump together and form droplets of water.
  - - - Water adheres to other polar substances. This can be observed through capillary action - adhesion enables water to climb up thin glass tubes called capillary tubes. This phenomenon occurs because glass molecules are even more polar than water molecules, which results in water molecules being attracted to the glass walls of the tube.
- - - - Components making up the mixture are distributed uniformly throughout the mixture. Different components in the mixture are hard to discern from one another.
      - Solution
        
        A homogenous mixture in which the solute is evenly distributed throughout the solvent.
        
        Solute
        
        A minor component of a solution that dissolves in the solvent
        
        Solvent
        
        A substance (usually a liquid) that dissolves a solute to form a solution.
    - - A mixture with non-uniform distribution of components. Components can be seen separately.