Interesting Facts and Uses of Water By Scott Hamilton

 

 

 

 

Do you know drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water intoxication just like alcohol Water intoxication occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in the bloodstream and causes an imbalance of water in the brain? Water intoxication is most likely to occur during periods of intense training. While you should be having eight cups of water a day, not all of this water needs to be in the liquid form. Almost all food and drink provides some water to the body.

Soft drinks, coffee, and tea, while made up almost entirely of water, also contain caffeine. Caffeine can prevent water from traveling to necessary locations in the body just like old age.

Pure water (solely hydrogen and oxygen atoms) has a neutral PH of 7, which is neither acidic nor basic its neutral.

Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it. Much more fresh water is stored under the ground in aquifers than on the earth ‘surface.

The same water that existed on the earth millions of years ago is still present today true stuff. The total amount of water on the earth is about 326 million cubic miles of water.

Of all the water on the earth, humans can use only 0.3 percent of this waterman that sucks. This water is found in groundwater aquifers, rivers, and freshwater lakes.

The United States uses about 346,000 million gallons of fresh water every day. The United States uses nearly 80 percent of its water for irrigation and thermoelectric power, farmers hog all the water.

Approximately 85 percent of U.S. Citizens get their water from public water facilities. The other 15 percent supply their own water from private wells or other sources surprising its only 15 percent.

By the time a person feels thirsty; their body has only lost over 1 percent of their water in their body not much ae.

The weight a person loses directly after intense physical activity is weight from water, not fat that’s pretty gutting.

http://www.allaboutwater.org/water-facts.html

1. Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold Water

Take two pails of water; fill one with hot water and the other one with cold water, and put them in the freezer. The hot one would be frozen before the cold one. But wait wouldn't the hot water have to cool down to the temperature of the cold water before it reaches freezing temperature, where the cold one doesn’t have to cool down before freezing?

In 1963, a Tanzanian high-school student named was freezing hot ice cream mix in a cooking class when he noticed that a hot mix actually froze faster than a cold mix. When he asked his teacher about this, his teacher laughed at him. Thankfully, he didn't back down - he convinced a physics professor to conduct an experiment which eventually confirmed it in certain conditions, hot water freezes before cold water trippy as .no one exactly how it’s done.

But some people think hot water freezes first it forms ice at a higher temperature than cold water, where cold water freezes faster it takes less time to reach the super cooled state then it forms ice) http://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/22/5-really-weird-things-about-water/