BIOCHEMISTRY
PROPERTIES OF WATER
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A group of friends wanted to purchase blue roses for another friend who was having a bad day, but the florist only had white roses on hand. Keeping science in mind, one of the friends bought the flowers and placed them in water containing blue dye. After a time, the flowers turn blue and the friends were able to gift the roses. Which properties of water were responsible for this phenomenon?
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Evaporative cooling allowed the water molecules to carry the blue dye through the roses since the water was room temperature.
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As the water molecules interacted with each other through cohesion and with the cells inside the rose stems through adhesion. This allowed for capillary action.
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The surface tension of the blue water was higher than the surface tension of the water inside the roses. This forced the blue dye into the flower.
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The longer the roses sat in water, the more covalent bonds formed within molecules of water. Eventually, the blue dye formed covalent bonds with the roses, turning them blue.
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