Water vs Ethanol

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Imagine the earth and what it is made up of, all the elements, life, how life is needed to stay alive and then, imagine the planet with absolute no water whatsoever. Like it didn't even exist, quite impossible to think of right? But what if there was another liquid which replaced water and all its uses in this world, would everything be the same? In this extended response task it will be looking at all waters properties and what it is made up of, how it helps life and if the natural liquid ethanol could take its place. Water (or the chemical H2O and less commonly known as dihydride monoxide) is a very basic but vital to life. waters consists of a transparent liquid which forms the earth's lakes, oceans and rain, it makes up most of the human body. Water is the major constituent of the fluids of nearly all living things. Let's look at H2O, it's in everything and everywhere, what is it? Each water molecule is made up of two hydrogen's atoms and one single oxygen atom, forming the formulae H2O. The molar mass of water is all the atoms masses added up in grams per mole, both hydrogens and the single oxygen is a total of 18.015 Grams/Mole. The atoms consists of the atom are joined by covalent bonding, this means that they share electrons. To the diagram to the right (refer to Fig. 1) shows this covalent bond. Now let's look at ethanol’s molecule is quite simple and only contains 9 atoms, ‘Eth’ meaning two carbon atoms and ‘ol’ mean it had an ‘OH’ or hydroxyl group, thus creating the chemical formulae of CH3CH2OH or ethanol for short. It’s also a clear colourless liquid like water but instead of being scentless, it has a pleasant smell. The combustion of ethanol or when it is alit on fire with high heat energy, it releases a pale blue, non-luminous flame which has the potential to release great amounts of energy. Ethanol has a molecular mass of two carbon, one

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