Talk:Water

Electrical Conductivity and Electrolysis
“The decomposition requires more energy input than the heat released by the inverse process (285.8 kJ/mol, or 15.9 MJ/kg).” This is in clear violation of conservation of energy. Perhaps what they intended to say was that electrolytic decomposition is not 100% efficient? Mindyobusiness12 (talk) 13:46, 29 December 2022 (UTC)


 * https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article/160/6/060901/3262785/The-structure-of-water-A-historical-perspective?searchresult=1 78.3.35.214 (talk) 19:28, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Disputed content
The second paragraph in the article as it exists now says the followiing: 'Because Earth's environment is relatively close to water's triple point'. Wander over to 'triple point' and it says that the pressure of water at the triple point is:

'vapor pressure of 611.657 pascals (6.11657 mbar; 0.00603659 atm)'. This is a lot closer to the atmospheric pressure of Mars, and is well below the Armstrong limit.

Water also does not magically change into Nitrogen and Nitrogen into water using some nuclear process either.

Lies sound cool because lying is cool ... NOT. What arguments do people have here that this is not a lie? I think that should be taken out of the article.

2601:1C2:500:9460:D9E1:DCE2:333C:5EB4 (talk) 21:55, 30 September 2023 (UTC)


 * "Earth's environment" includes the entire Earth's atmosphere, which definitely has points with pressure below the triple point of water. I can understand your concern if the article stated "Earth's surface" as that would be untrue, and maybe it is worded somewhat confusingly, but as it is right now there's nothing untrue about it. Reconrabbit (talk) 21:31, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
 * My dear friend, I feel a tone of aggression in your words, I understand your concern, but you don't need to be so aggressive with your words, be polite, as I'm being with you. (Note: I don’t wanna other discussion, so, get your mood on me, ok?) 177.105.90.20 (talk) 20:39, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
 * The claim is properly sourced to a university website by an expert. "the Earth environment is close to the triple point and that water, steam and ice can all exist at the surface." and also "Near the surface of the Earth water can exist in three phases - ice (solid), water (liquid), and vapor (steam)". "Relatively close" does not mean that earth is at the triple point.&#32;Ramos1990 (talk) 20:56, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Molecular polarity

 * What I think should be changed (format using textdiff): Under the molecular polarity paragraph it states "oxygen atom retains a negative charge while the hydrogen atoms are positively charged." this is technically wrong it should be a partial negative charge and hydrogen partial positive charge
 * Why it should be changed: its wrong
 * References supporting the possible change (format using the "cite" button):

Wickyman123 (talk) 11:13, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅. HansVonStuttgart (talk) 12:26, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

"Oxidane"
a link in the infobox for the word Oxidane would be nice (it redirects to a nomenclature section, currently located at Properties of water, information not currently found in this article). However, looking at how this infobox is configured (pulled through from the chembox template), I'm actually not at all sure how one would go about adding that. So I'm leaving this comment instead --Tomatoswoop (talk) 20:43, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 July 2024
102.223.58.254 (talk) 08:08, 17 July 2024 (UTC) There are a few grammar errors that need to changed and there are grammatically incorrect
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Left guide (talk) 08:41, 17 July 2024 (UTC)