Welcome to our second article on water. In this we will see

that water is a most unusual substance, and on this depends

the life of the planet.

For water is an astounding substance.

While being easily the most common element on our planet,

water behaves in a most unusual way, doing quite different

things to what one would expect in comparison to other

elements in nature.

This unusual  and surprising behavior is the very basis for

life in our world.

If water behaved the way scientists would expect it to, when

compared to other similar substances, then many strange

things would happen in nature around us.

Ice would fall rock-like to the bottom of lakes and seas to

stay there building up further ice around it, far beyond the

melting warmth of the sun.

Every day the top of oceans would evaporate much more than

they do, and then fall again as vast storms at days end. Our

weather patterns would always be wild and chaotic.

If water was not amazingly capable of dissolving substances,

it would not have spread nutrients for life all over the

planet as well as within all living organisms.

Without water's capacity to store and share information as

different vibrating frequencies in an extraordinary manner,

living cells would not be able to communicate with each other,

forming the basis for the wisdom of our bodies and those of

other creatures and plants we are surrounded by.

So lets look more closely water's surprising response

to temperature and discover some amazing facts and

behaviors.

When compared with other similar chemical substances,

physicists would expect water to freeze at –120 degrees

celsius!

And the boiling point of water should be a cold –75 degrees

celsius, according to its molecular weight.

However, as we know, it is a much higher 100 degrees

celsius for boiling and 0 degrees celsius for freezing. 

(In fact, Mr Celcius chose water's behavior as the basis for

his measurement system).

If it did behave like this then there would be virtually no

liquid water on the earth! All water would be floating around

as steam in the normal temperature range we live in.

Regarding warmth, water requires much more heat to

evaporate than comparable substances, saving the complete

top layers of oceans and moisture from land being sucked up

every day to fall again as tempestuous storms every night.

Happily water does not behave like this and as a result we

have a generally moist earth, bathed in our relatively calm

and beautiful seas and lakes, surrounded by air filled with

the microscopic droplets of water we call humidity.

And we have that soft sweet liquid we love to drink when it

is fresh.

But what of the ice?

Water at 4 degrees celsius is at its greatest density, its

most contracted state.

From that temperature, it expands as it gets warmer or colder.

Unlike most elements, when it freezes water expands and

becomes lighter! It floats as a solid on top of its own liquid

warmer self! 

This also means that water as a liquid is more dense than

when solid. It is less able to be compressed when liquid than

when ice!  Other liquids become more solid when they are

solid!

Hence the great power of ocean waves.

If water was like other liquids when frozen, it would fall

down heavier into its own liquid state, into the colder depths.

And then ice would build up on ice far away from the melting

sympathies of the sun until the earth was a solid block of ice.

It is also interesting that it is in the colder areas of the

seas that the greatest ecological life exists.

If ice was deep down below, there would not be the protective

heat reflecting layer of white ice floating on the surface,

keeping our oceans at a healthy cool temperature.

This strange capacity of water to expand as it freezes also

has had an immense effect on our landscape over eons of time.

In areas of the earth where water freezes at night and thaws

again in the morning, we find the toughest rocks splitting

and being broken down.

Liquid wetness creeps into every crack and rocky

crevice, expanding inexorably with great force as a wedge

while it freezes through the dark cold night. Thawing the

next day, and refreezing the next night continues this

splitting effect until something gives.

In this way, with the help of wind or rain, whole mountains

have been broken down, and rocky outcrops in deserts turned

into sand.

If water was not both very common but also fundamentally

strange and unusual, our planet would not carry life as we

know it.

Some of our nearby planets are very different. Take Venus;

air a deadly gas, liquid a corrosive acid and air pressure

enough to squash you flat plus a temperature to cook you

instantly. No plans in place to migrate to Venus!

So, the planet we are on is most unusual… because of water.

Regards

Iain Trousdell

Co-Founder and Keynote Speaker

The Healing Water Institute

www.healingwaterinstitute.org

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