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Day Three: God creates the Mayim for Earth's Oceans and Seas
The Science of Water (Mayim) Did you know that Earth is the only known planet in the entire universe where the temperature range allows for water to exist as a solid, a liquid and a gas? Did you also know that an ice cube's temperature will always remains at 0° C or 32° F ( water's freezing point ) , regardless of the surrounding temperatures. The same thing holds true for boiling water. The temperature of boiling water always remains at 100° C or 212° F ( water's boiling point) . How is that possible? The answer is simple. God created each molecule of water with the capacity to hold only a prescribed number of calories of heat. A calorie is defined as the energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C entigrade .
80 calories of heat is required to either freeze water or melt ice without any increase in the temperature of the system (the ice cube) . This is called the heat of fusion and it relates to the energy needed to break the hydrogen-
bonds that are holding the water molecules together in the solid state. An ice cube (or a flake of snow) will remain frozen at 0° C or 32° F until each molecule of frozen water has absorb ed 80 calories of heat .
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