Oxygen Atoms Are Used to Make Water Molecules

question 36

Multiple Choice

Oxygen atoms are used to make water molecules. Does this mean that oxygen, O₂, and water, H₂O, have similar properties?

• A)Yes, and this explains how fish are able to breathe water.
• B)Yes, but that their properties are similar is only a coincidence.
• C)No, but their similar properties are only a coincidence.
• D)No, compounds are uniquely different from the elements from which they're made.

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Definitions:

Convection

Transfer of thermal energy by flow of a liquid or a solid, but weak material.

Heating During Burial

An increase in temperature experienced by rocks and sediments as they are buried deeper in the Earth’s crust, leading to changes in their properties and structure.

Liquid-Solid Boundary

The interface where a liquid phase and a solid phase meet, significant in studies of material properties and phase transitions.

Heat Transfer

The process by which thermal energy is exchanged between physical systems, occurring through conduction, convection, or radiation.