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Water Water’s solvent property is important to living organisms. Water dissolves most inorganic materials including glucose. Glucose is an important source of energy for animals and humans. Once the glucose dissolves in water it can be easily transported through out the body in the blood. Another use of its solvent property is that nutrients can be dissolved in rain water on the ground and get taken to other plants that use the nutrients for their own benefit. Due to water molecule’s strong bonds, water is very cohesive (sticky). Its cohesive nature becomes particularly important, for example, when water is needed to be transported to the top of a plant. Cohesion forms strong pulling forces which enables water to get from the roots of a plant up through a stem more easily. Water also has high surface tension, meaning that it has an almost elastic quality, its sticks together in a small heap rather than spreading out thinly across a surface due again to the strong bond between each and every water molecule.
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