A molecule containing two hydrogen chemical atoms and one oxygen chemical atom. An isolated ground-state water molecule has a bent equilibrium geometry; ordinary bulk water contains interacting water molecules rather than a collection of independent rigid objects.
The liquid phase of water. Its density is much greater than that of dilute water vapor, allowing the liquid's specific volume to be neglected in the usual integrated Clausius-Clapeyron relation.
Water vapor is gaseous water. Its absorption and emission contribute to atmospheric radiative transfer and the greenhouse effect.
Two water molecules can exchange a proton, producing hydronium and hydroxide ions: . Even pure water therefore supplies ions; extreme dilution eventually invalidates the strong acid assumption that it supplies all the hydronium.
A snowflake is an ice crystal or an aggregate of ice crystals grown in atmospheric conditions. Its morphology depends on vapour supersaturation, transport, temperature and crystal anisotropy. Not every snowflake is dendritic.
An exposed tip receives vapour more efficiently than a sheltered surface and can amplify its lead, producing crystal dendrites and side branches. The planar thermal solidification mechanism is an analogy, not a complete vapour-growth model. The hexagonal ice crystal anisotropy selects six preferred directions; an isotropic linear instability alone does not select six arms.
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"Water" is the name for both:
- the chemical compound with chemical formula H2O
- the liquid phase of the chemical substance composed of the above chemical compound
Simplified phase diagram of water
. Source. Note the triple point and critical point visible. Phase diagrams are so cool!
water body
Today, shipping costs are so low (eg., $0.50 per kg for US-China shipments) that for most goods, the market is global.
But what if the main water supply in a region is owned by a single entity, and they charge exorbitant prices? Unlike food, bringing in water from faraway regions would be too expensive. Of course, people moving out would result in the entity going out of business and selling the water supply to someone more rational, but due to various reasons, moving out isn't always easy.
Here's the true solution. Currently, the water supply in most countries is owned by the government. Upon transition to libertarianism, the water supply in each region would simply be an entity with ownership distributed among the residents. If some of them sell their shares of the water supply to a company that then jacks up the prices, they'll have to move out, but that is simply them facing the consequences of risking putting their water supply in another's hands.
What if the water supply was sold by the government to a private entity currently subject to regulations? Would a libertarian transition remove those regulations? Note that this situation is caused by having to transition from big government to libertarianism. If a libertarian society arose naturally, rights to natural resources would be distributed among the community via the principle of homesteading. And as before, anyone selling their rights must be moving or have another source ready, othewise accept the potential consequences.
To fix the issues caused by a non-libertarian government, non-libertarian measured may be needed. The government had no right to the water, nor to sell it to the private entity. It may need to be taken back.