IT’S A WATER WATER WORLD

1. IT’S A WATER WATER WORLD By Arthur Siebens To the tune of “If I Had a Hammer”

2. It’s a water water world, you can drink it in the morning It can rain in the evening, there’s more sea than land It’s a cause of danger Reduces cooling and warming It’s the main kind of matter in your brothers and your sisters The chemistry of water’s something everybody’s got to understand,

3. There’s three kinds of bonds, that water helps demonstrate All deal with electrons, atoms share or donate Covalent bonds come from sharing, unpaired electrons pairing Oxygen and hydrogen are tightly held together Covalently bonded like they’re holdings hands,

4. Electronegative oxygen, hogs those shared electrons This makes water polar – oxygen’s slightly charged Oxygen’s a little negative, hydrogen’s a little positive Hydrogen bonds form, that account for many properties Of water ‘bout which I’ll now expand,

5. Water sticks to itself, it’s called cohesion And there’s high surface tension, and high specific heat High heat of vaporization Also ice formation And ‘cause of water’s polarity, there’s adhesion and capillarity It dissolves more substances than any other solvent in the land,

6. Now sodium and chloride, they don’t share electrons They accept or donate – held together by charge Chloride is negative, sodium is positive In the polar solvent water, ions get surrounded Sodium chloride gets dissolved as ionic bond disband,

7. It’s a water water world, you can drink it in the morning It can rain in the evening, there’s more sea than land It’s a cause of danger Reduces cooling and warming It’s the main kind of matter in your brothers and your sisters The chemistry of water’s something everybody’s got to understand, It’s a water water world!