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We bring you several elements and documents of daily use such as conversion tables, chemical tables and a wide range of links that will be very useful, as well as little-known facts and data about water.
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1) How is the jet of a whale formed? Whales have a complex mouth apparatus with which they filter the WATER, made up of many rods called baleen that are arranged side by side, like the bars of a fence. The jet that they launch and that betray them in front of the hunters, they throw it through the nostrils that are located in the upper part of the head. Actually the jet is not WATER in liquid state, but vapor and is formed by the difference in temperature between the animal and the environment. These jets reach a height of up to 7 meters.
2) Thales de Mileto (the first philosopher recognized by history), carried out scientific research that led him to speculate that all natural phenomena are different forms, but with a fundamental substance: WATER.
3) At sea level, WATER boils at 100 ° C. If we apply 970.3 BTUs of heat to it, one pound (0.454 liters) of WATER will turn into one pound of steam. If I apply pressure to this (218 atmospheres), the WATER will boil to 374 ° C.
4) The density of WATER is: 5.5268 times the density of the earth.
5) Icebergs reach heights of between 90 and 150 meters. So when we see the "tip of the iceberg" we will be seeing only 10% of its size. An important property of WATER upon freezing is that it turns into a solid state (ice). At 0 ° C, WATER in solid state has a specific gravity of 0.9168, which compared to the specific gravity of WATER in liquid state at the same temperature is 0.9998. As a result, the ice floats on the WATER.
6) The world's oceans cover 71% of the earth's surface, or about 361 million cubic kilometers. Its average depth is 5,000 meters, and its total volume is about 1,347,000,000 cubic kilometers of WATER.
7) The temperature of the ocean surface varies from 26 ° C (79 ° F) in tropical waters, to –1.4 ° C (29.5 ° F), which is the freezing point of sea WATER, in the polar regions.
8) Surveyors have established that the highest location above sea level is 8,848 meters. at the top of Mount Everest (Nepal), and the lowest depth is 11,003 meters, it is located below the Pacific Ocean at the bottom of the Marian Trench. The lowest elevation in the continents is 408 meters. from sea level, in the Dead Sea, between Israel and Jordan.
9) Urine removes about 110 liters of watery fluid from the blood per day. A healthy adult can produce between 0.5 and 2 liters of urine daily. 96% of the volume of urine is WATER.
10) The circulation of WATER through the blood and the lymphatic system transports oxygen and nutrients to the cells and removes the excesses through the urine.
11) WATER has been used as a symbol of purification in many religions. In the ancient world, the WATERS of the Ganges in India, the Euphrates in Babylon, and the Nile in Egypt were used for holy baths.
12) Icebergs in the North Atlantic can travel up to 3,200 km. from where they originate.
13) Every day about 1,200 km3 of water evaporates from the ocean, land, ice sheets, etc. While a similar amount of rain falls on the earth.
14) The Dead Sea is the deepest lake in the world, with 408 meters. below sea level. The longest Caspian, covers an area of 370,998 km3. Lake Baikal is the deepest of the fresh WATER lakes in the world, with a maximum depth of 1,637 meters.
15) Measuring 6,400 km., From the source to the mouth, the Amazon River is the second longest river in the world. It flows into a territory of more than 6 million km2. It is estimated that it discharges between 34 million and 121 million liters of water per second and deposits a daily average of 3 million tons of sediment near its mouth. These sediments are sufficient to alter the color of the Atlantic Ocean at a distance of 320 km. from the mouth of the river.
16) Sunlight disappears into WATER in the following way: Red at 3 meters, Green at 6 meters, and Blue at 9 meters. This is why vivid goldfish are found in this surface range.
17) To produce 1 ton of wheat, 1000 tons of WATER are required.
18) Common beer is made up of 91.3% WATER, 4.2% carbohydrates, 0.3% protein, 0.2% minerals, 0.5% carbon dioxide and 3.5% alcohol.
19) In a family home, the highest WATER consumption is in the toilets (water closet), with 40% of the daily requirement.
20) The domestic use of WATER in the world, represents only 7% of the total extraction.
21) IF the WATER is cold, the bubbles take longer to reach the surface.
22) If you water your garden frequently, it will increase its growth between 100% and 400%.
23) Modern man uses 20 times more WATER than his predecessors.
24) To obtain 1 liter of gasoline from oil, 10 liters of WATER are required.
25) If you are a normal person, with an average standard of living and average longevity, then throughout your life you will consume 64,000 liters of WATER.
26) The human body is approximately 75% WATER.
27) If you use soft drinking WATER, then you will use 60% less soap.
28) WATER at 100 ° C in a liquid state, to transform into vapor at the same temperature, takes up to 6.5 times more energy than heating it from 0 ° C to 100 ° C.
29) The so-called hardness of WATER is mainly caused by Calcium and Magnesium dissolved in the water. This hardness is measured in Parts Per Million (ppm) of Calcium Carbonate, which means just that: one part of Salt Calcium Carbonate per million parts of WATER. It is considered soft WATER when it contains less than 50 ppm of Hardness.
30) In one liter of sea WATER, it is possible to find 25 to 30 grams of salt.
31) The scale that measures the potential of Hydrogen (pH) in WATER is exponential, that is, each decimal point indicates 10 times more acidity / alkalinity, that is, WATER at a pH of 5.0 is 10 times more acidic than that of a pH of 6.0. But WATER at a pH of 2.0 is 100,000 times more acidic than neutral WATER (pH 7.0).
32) WATER is known as "Universal Solvent", because it can dissolve more substances than any other known liquid.
33) WATER is the only substance on Earth that is found in the 3 basic states of nature (liquid, solid and gaseous), at room temperature.
34) Our brain is about 90% water, muscles 75%, blood 85%, liver 69%, and even bones are 22% in WATER content.
35) 5,400 gallons of WATER are used to produce the grains that a dairy cow consumes during the day. This same cow will drink 25 gallons of WATER per week. That is, for a cow to produce 250 ml. of milk, it takes 58 gallons of WATER.
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