Is Water the Most Important Liquid on Earth?
The most expensive liquid that you can buy is Deathstalker venom. It comes from one of the most dangerous scorpions on the planet, and that venom is valued at over £6,000,000 per litre.
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Oil is another liquid that comes to mind; it has been the lifeblood of industrial nations and the world’s most important source of energy for well over 60 years.
But the most abundant and important liquid on our planet is H2O; without water, there would be no life of any kind. You could say that it is the liquid of life.
Water is a transparent, tasteless liquid that has no smell. A water molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Water will freeze at 32° Fahrenheit or 0°Celsius and boil at 212° Fahrenheit or 100° Celsius.
We are extremely lucky that our world is orbiting the Sun at the perfect distance; too close to the Sun and the water would boil away; and too far away, all the water in our oceans and lakes would be frozen solid.
That magical area where the Earth orbits the Sun is called the habitable zone or Goldilocks zone, which means that water can be in three common states: solid, liquid, and…
