Question about water..........?
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Water is essential to survival and optimal health... but there IS such thing as too much of a good thing.\n\nSO, if you are guzzling down lots of water but not getting enough 'electrolytes' then you can end up with hyponatremia; a dangerous condition that results because your body needs to use electrolytes to create urine.\n\nALSO, the gastric emptying time of water alone is pretty fast (the time for water to leave your stomach) so you will NOT stretch out your stomach by drinking water.\n\nFind a balance. There's no *Magic* way to lose weight.
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Why is the Ocean Salty?\n\nAll water, even rain water, contains dissolved chemicals which scientists call "salts." But not all water tastes salty. Water is fresh or salty according to individual judgment, and in making this decision man is more convinced by his sense of taste than by a laboratory test. It is one's taste buds that accept one water and reject another.\nA simple experiment illustrates this. Fill three glasses with water from the kitchen faucet. Drink from one and it tastes fresh even though some dissolved salts are naturally present. Add a pinch of table salt to the second, and the water may taste fresh or slightly salty depending on a personal taste threshold and on the amount of salt held in a "pinch." But add a teaspoon of salt to the third and your taste buds vehemently protest that this water is too salty to drink; this glass of water has about the same salt content as a glass of sea water.\nObviously, the ocean, in contrast to the water we use daily, contains unacceptable amounts of dissolved chemicals; it is too salty for human consumption. \n\nHOW SALTY IS THE OCEAN?...\nHow salty the ocean is, however, defies ordinary comprehension. Some scientists estimate that the oceans contain as much as 50 quadrillion tons (50 million billion tons) of dissolved solids.\n\nIf the salt in the sea could be removed and spread evenly over the Earth's land surface it would form a layer more than 500 feet thick, about the height of a 40-story office building. The saltiness of the ocean is more understandable when compared with the salt content of a fresh-water lake. For example, when 1 cubic foot of sea water evaporates it yields about 2.2 pounds of salt, but 1 cubic foot of fresh water from Lake Michigan contains only one one-hundredth (0.01) of a pound of salt, or about one sixth of an ounce. Thus, sea water is 220 times saltier than the fresh lake water. What arouses the scientist's curiosity is not so much why the ocean is salty, but why it isn't fresh like the rivers and streams that empty into it. Further, what is the origin of the sea and of its "salts"? And how does one explain ocean water's remarkably uniform chemical composition? To these and related questions, scientists seek answers with full awareness that little about the oceans is understood.\n\n\nIllustration: Sources of salts in the ocean.\n\nTHE ORIGIN OF THE SEA...\nIn popular language, "ocean" and "sea" are used interchangeably. Today's seas are the North and South Pacific, North and South Atlantic, Indian and Arctic Oceans and the Antarctic waters or seas.\nScientists believe that the seas are as much as 500 million years old because animals that lived then occur as fossils in rocks which once were under ancient seas. There are several theories about the origin of the seas, but no single theory explains all aspects of this puzzle. Many earth scientists agree with the hypothesis that both the atmosphere and the oceans have accumulated gradually through geologic time from some process of "degassing" of the Earth's interior. According to this theory, the ocean had its origin from the prolonged escape of water vapor and other gases from the molten igneous rocks of the Earth to the clouds surrounding the cooling Earth. After the Earth's surface had cooled to a temperature below the boiling point of water, rain began to fall and continued to fall for centuries. As the water drained into the great hollows in the Earth's surface, the primeval ocean came into existence. The forces of gravity prevented the water from leaving the planet.\n\nSOURCES OF THE SALTS...\nSea water has been defined as a weak solution of almost everything. Ocean water is indeed a complex solution of mineral salts and of decayed biologic matter that results from the teeming life in the seas. Most of the ocean's salts were derived from gradual processes such the breaking up of the cooled ign
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yes water can go bad according to this link http://science.howstuffworks.com/question201.htm
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it depends on your body demand for water. generaklly water can be absorbed completely by alimentary system
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Ordinary water "IS CONDUCTIVE". The reason for this is that water contains many other elements which themselves are conductive. (I even know someone who died when the bamboo he was holding touched an open and live electrical wire because the bamboo was still fresh meaning it still contains some water in it)
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True. water is essential for the transport of nutrients within them, since it is the "universal solvent".
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water, water and water........Drink atleast 8-12 glasses of water/day
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>>>>Why is distilled water bad for you?\n\nIt isn't bad for you.\n\n\n>>>>What's its effect on lactobacillus (friendly bacteria in your body)?\n\n\nNothing whatsoever. It's water, the same chemical that makes up 95% of the wirrght of the bacteria themselves. It is impossible for distilled water to have any effect at all on gut flora.
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Yep it's water but not the fountain of youth. Drinking water and lots of it rejuvenates the skin and keeps it healthy and nourished, our bodies and the earth is made mostly of water so go figure.  We can't survive without water you would die, literally.
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try wikipedia.org, it can tell you anything.... body is mostly water, I believe.  More than 50% H20
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fruits,plants,our own body consists of water---every living thing consisits sum amnt of water in their bodies---its even scientifically proven---this fact is mentioned in the HOLY QUR'AN-----
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water is poler b/c the hydrogen atoms bond to the oxygen words one side, giving that side a negative charge, while the opposite side has a posative one.\n\nsuger and salt r soluble in water\n\nidk what doesn't desolve in water, sry
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Depends on the country. Here in the US our water is relatively bacteria free, but other countries.........well, DON'T DRINK THE WATER!!
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Can this realy be true that there is an antifreeeze chemical for animal drinking water ?\nI doubt it. I am not a farmer, but I know that they simply keep the animal drinking vessels protected from the weather.\n\nI admit to not being an expert.
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For all things water see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water
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Saltwater tastes nasty... kinda ermmmm... saltyish. It's also lethal to some aquatic life whilst essential to others.\n\nAlso drinking salwater will dehydrate you whist fresh water hydrates you.
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Water is a combination of 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom: H2O.\nnot H2O2!!!!!