How does water’s property of high specific heat moderate temperatures on Earth?
I agree with the above but it is the hydrogen bonding that is responsible for lot of that. Because oxygen is so negative and hydrogen is so positive the H20 tries to line up like an ionic substance. This attraction allows it to absorb a lot of heat before it will vibrate out of solution and evap. What happens when you heat up gasoline, it evaporates. lots of everyday chemicals get just a little heat and change to a gas, etc. Water has the unique ability to absorb tons of heat before it changes to a gas or freezes. Could you imagine how we would regulate our body temperature with sweat that evaporated rapidly. EVERYONE would be ten times sweatier than the guy at the gym who is dripping wet (gross). If water didn’t absorb tons of heat, it would evap rapidly, and be like the muggiest day ever all the time. Oceans and bodies of water store tons of heat that they gained during the day through out the cold evening hours. In the morning the water is still relatively warm becasue the heat stor
