Thursday, September 8, 2011

Cohesion


Cohesion is the sticking together of particles in one particular substance. Also know as attraction between molecules. Cohesion of water is how well it sticks to itself. It is caused by hydrogen bonds.










(Water is an example of this. It is strongly cohesive as each molecule makes four hydrogen bonds to other water molecules in a tetrahedral configuration.)

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