Antoine Laviosier's Discovery Of The Existence Of Water

Introduction

During the Earth’s known existence, many raise questions to a substance that is a vital necessity to our life here. Some even may claim that the start of our lives may have occurred and begun in a single drop of this universal solvent. This mysterious compound, which may have led to our development and the survival of our existence what, is it? This is H2O, or as we call it, Water. This vital life form covers over 70 percent of the Earth, and makes up about 70 percent of our body as well. We know all of this though, so what is the history behind the thing that keeps me functioning? I will need to look at: who discovered water, how it received its identity, the discovery of its chemical make-up, and its vitality to us. There is

Antoine Laviosier discovered, through electrical experiments, that Hydrogen and Oxygen could be made from water. He made this discovery during the time of the 1770s. The credit of its composition can be given to James Watt in 1783 or Henry Cavendish in 1781. Henry “experimented with hydrogen and oxygen and mixed these elements together to create an explosion (oxyhydrogen effect).” James suggested the composition, while Henry recombined the element of Hydrogen and Oxygen but didn’t publish it until years later after Watt. In the year the years after there came an amazing discovery done by a man named Jöns Jakob Berzelius, and one known as Amadeo Avogadro. Avogadro and Berzelius fixed the atomic weights of these two elements and gave us, what we know today,

Most substances occupy less volume as a solid than they do as liquid. Solid water - ice as we tend to call it - has a higher volume, which is why it's not recommended to freeze a bottle full of water, and why ice floats on a pond. It's often said that this is a unique property of water” (Clegg).

One thing that makes what as important as we all know it to be it that is known as, “the universal solvent.” This makes it a really well substance for dissolving others. It can also act as transport and take vital nutrients to living cells to the human body, and other things as well. Water is not only involved in making compounds, it can also be used in many metabolic processes necessary for our body’s survival. It is also a conductor of electricity due to the ions that are formed in water.

With water being so necessary to life some tend to worry about shortages. The short answer is that, “No” we won’t run out of water. There is such an abundance of this amazing thing, and much of it returns to the source anyways. The problem that we as people are going to experience is that we may run out of water that we can actually use. Water has many properties and many responsibilities, way too many too cover. As we see though this is a very unique and exciting