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Day Three: God creates the Mayim for Earth's Oceans and Seas
The Science of Water (Mayim)
The insect in the picture above is called a water strider. It hunts its prey by actually walking on the surface of still water . The picture on the right is a metal pin floating on the surface of water. You might be asking yourself - How can a bug walk on water and a metal object float? If you could see molecules of water and how they act, you would notice that each water molecule 's hydrogen and oxygen atom electrically attracts its neighbors forming a tight net-like mesh . The extraordinary attraction of water 's molecules is the reason you can fill a glass of water above the rim. Water has a very high surface tension !
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