Talk:Water

Semi-protected edit request on 25 April 2016

Under the further reading section could you add the DOI or a weblink to the following reference please?

Jones, OA., JN Lester and N Voulvoulis, Pharmaceuticals: a threat to drinking water? TRENDS in Biotechnology 23(4): 163, 2005

This will help people find the article more easily and make this entry match the other references in this section.

You could add the doi code 10.1016/j.tibtech.2005.02.001 or use the full weblink http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2005.02.001

Many thanks

```` Oliver Jones

131.170.90.6 (talk) 07:00, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Done Added a proper {{cite journal}}:

• Jones, Oliver A.; Lester, John N.; Voulvoulis, Nick (2005). "Pharmaceuticals: a threat to drinking water?". Trends in Biotechnology. 23 (4). Elsevier {BV: 163–167. doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2005.02.001. Retrieved 2016-04-25. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

Sam Sailor <sup>Talk!</sup> 15:26, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Removed redundant/incorrect wikitable

The following table was removed since some of its entries are incorrect or meaningless, and others either redundant or are better stated in text form. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 06:44, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Property	Remarks	Importance to the environment
Physical state	Only substance occurring naturally in all three phases as solid, liquid, and gas on Earth's surface	Transfer of heat between ocean and atmosphere by phase change
Dissolving ability	Dissolves more substances in greater quantities than any other common liquid	Important in chemical, physical, and biological processes
Density: mass per unit volume	Density is determined by (1) temperature, (2) salinity, and (3) pressure, in that order of importance. The temperature of maximum density for pure water is 4 °C. For seawater, the freezing point decreases with increasing salinity	Controls oceanic vertical circulation, aids in heat distribution, and allows seasonal stratification
Surface tension	Highest of all common liquids	Controls drop formation in rain and clouds; important in cell physiology
Conduction of heat	Highest of all common liquids	Important on the small scale, especially on cellular level
Specific Heat capacity	Highest of all common solids and liquids	Prevents extreme range in Earth's temperatures (i.e., great heat moderator)
Latent heat of fusion	Highest of all common liquids and most solids	Thermostatic heat-regulating effect due to the release of heat on freezing and absorption on melting
Latent heat of vaporization	Highest of all common substances	Immense importance: a major factor in the transfer of heat in and between ocean and atmosphere, driving weather and climate
Refractive index	Increases with increasing salinity and decreases with increasing temperature	Objects appear closer than in air
Transparency	Relatively great for visible light; absorption high for infrared and ultraviolet	Important for photosynthesis
Sound transmission	Good compared with other fluids	Allows for sonar and precision depth recorders to rapidly determine water depth, and to detect subsurface features and animals; sounds can be heard great distances underwater
Compressibility	Only slight	Density changes only slightly with pressure/depth
Boiling and melting points	Unusually high	Allows water to exist as a liquid on most of Earth

Removed superfluous figures

For lack of space, removed the dew-on-spiderweb photo at right and its caption "Dew drops adhering to a spider web." --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 06:44, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Also removed the the hazard label figure at right (which was commented out in the source) and its caption "ADR label for transporting goods dangerously reactive with water". --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 06:44, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

hi  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.114.181.76 (talk) 19:31, 15 December 2016 (UTC) 

universal solvent

especially from biological point of view the notion of "universal solvent" is underlined in every introductory biology book. here is just one source: usgs.gov. indeed wiki has a redirection page [Universal_solvent] which mentions water. So I guess it should be mentioned here at least. Moreover I think it should be emphasized with a paragraph. "Water is a good solvent for a wide variety of chemical substances;" the phrase 'good solvent' is misleading I think --aruz (talk) 22:35, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

add another data page link

TerpeneOtto (talk) 19:55, 10 December 2016 (UTC) Could we add another link to the top of the page to the water data page? I had a hard time finding the data page quickly. Research professionals are searching water data for numerous scientific, engineering and physics purposes and it would benefit us if it was linked in at the top as well.

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