WRITING ASSIGNMENT

Name: Khairil Anshari

NIM: 17/415907/PA/18176

Class: IUP

“Water”

Water is one of natural resources that is very essential in our planet. Uses of water include
agricultural, industrial, household, recreational and environmental activities. All living things require water
to grow and reproduce. Ninety seven percent of the water on the Earth is salt water and only three percent
is fresh water; slightly over two thirds of this is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps. The remaining unfrozen
freshwater is found mainly as groundwater, with only a small fraction present above ground or in the air.

Water, a substance composed of the chemical elements hydrogen and oxygen and existing in
gaseous, liquid, and solid states. It is one of the most plentiful and essential of compounds. A tasteless and
odourless liquid at room temperature, it has the important ability to dissolve many other substances. Indeed,
the versatility of water as a solvent is essential to living organisms. Life is believed to have originated in
the aqueous solutions of the world’s oceans, and living organisms depend on aqueous solutions, such as
blood and digestive juices, for biological processes. In small quantities water appears colourless, but water
actually has an intrinsic blue colour caused by slight absorption of light at red wavelengths.

STRUCTURE OF WATER

The water molecule is composed of two hydrogen atoms, each linked by a single chemical bond to
an oxygen atom. Most hydrogen atoms have a nucleus consisting solely of a proton. Two isotopic forms,
deuterium and tritium, in which the atomic nuclei also contain one and two neutrons, respectively, are found
to a small degree in water. Deuterium oxide (D2O), called heavy water, is important in chemical research
and is also used as a neutron moderator in some nuclear reactor.

A water molecule is made up of two hydrogen

atoms and one oxygen atom. A single oxygen atom contains
six electrons in its outer shell, which can hold a total of eight
electrons. When two hydrogen atoms are bound to an
oxygen atom, the outer electron shell of oxygen is filled.