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Let's learn about water
Water is all around us. We drink it, wash things with it, turn it into ice and put it in our juice in summer, swim in it, watch it fall from the sky in various forms, and so on. Water is indispensable to life – the fact that we could not live without it is already a truism. And although we use it so often, there's so much information about water that we don't know.
Let's first recap what we all know about water: It is an odorless, tasteless, and colorless liquid found in nature in liquid, solid, and gaseous form. It is one of the most widespread substances on our planet and forms the Earth's shell called the "hydrosphere". It can also be fresh or salty: salt water is found in oceans and seas, and fresh water can be solid – in glaciers, polar caps, snow, or snow (solid precipitation) and liquid in flowing, stagnant water, and liquid precipitation – rain and groundwater or groundwater. In its gaseous state, water forms clouds and causes air humidity. Being always in(...)