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OpenStudy (anonymous):

What accounts for water’s properties of adhesion and cohesion?

OpenStudy (caozeyuan):

H-bond

OpenStudy (pottersheep):

Yup, the H-bonds attract all the molecules to each other, so they stick to each other, kind of. :)

OpenStudy (pottersheep):

I found this online "Water, for example, is strongly cohesive as each molecule may make four hydrogen bonds to other water molecules in a tetrahedral configuration. "

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