RE: WATER AS A FUNDAMENTAL SUBSTANCE FOR VETERINARY MEDICINE, A CONCEPTUAL APPROACH.
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Thanks for this information, I didn't know how water affects the nature of cells and tissues of an organism, allow me a few questions because I'm not very familiar with biology Lol:
- You said: (At present, organisms are known to be able to live without light, even without oxygen). Can you explain how an organism can live without oxygen? Or is it possible to give an example of the type of organism that can live without oxygen?
According to my understanding of the introduction you wrote, you spoke about the bond with which the atoms of the water molecule are united (covalent bond), and in the next paragraph you said that the bond that makes up the compound gives it a high boiling point (I understand from this sentence that you are referring to the type of bond mentioned in the paragraph above), do you mean here a covalent bond? (which is considered as an interatomic bond). But when we speak of boiling temperature, the temperature of change of state increases with the intensity of the intermolecular forces (Hydrogen bond in this case, resulting from the electrostatic interaction between a very electronegative element like the atom of oxygen, with a hydrogen atom from another molecule). Therefore, you need to breakdown the intermolecular bonds in order to change one physical state into another.
I would be grateful if you would clarify this point about the bonds mentioned in the introduction.
Greetings friend @benainouna, first of all I apologize for the lateness of my response, with respect to your statements, we can hardly get a species that lives without oxygen or light from our planet, there I can infer that it was an error in the translation you make.
Regarding the types of bonds, we must be aware that water can generate hydrogen bridges at the molecular level (i.e. between its molecules), but as such the compound is formed with the union of hydrogen atoms and oxygen and this type of bond is covalent type strong enough to raise its boiling point to 100 ° C.
I hope I have clarified your doubts.
Greetings...
Thanks for answering Mr @madrodbg
It was not a translation sir, i made copy-past of your sentence: (At present, organisms are known to be able to live without light, even without oxygen) And here is a screenshot of the paragraph in which you mentioned that.
Thanks again