Given the above diagram, describe what happens electronically between these two molecules.

A. Oxygen W becomes slightly positively charged due to the oxygen molecule.
B. Oxygen W becomes slightly negatively charged due to the oxygen molecule.
C. Oxygen A becomes slightly positively charged due to the electrons on the water molecule.
D. Oxygen B becomes slightly positively charged due to the electrons on the water molecule.
E. none of the above


Answer: D

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

You might also like to view...

A statement you will sometimes hear people say is that a day is not 24 hours but is really 23 hr. 56 min. and 4 sec. What does this refer to?

A) Our clocks drift that much each day, and we average out the affect with period time shifts, like leap years and leap seconds. B) This is sidereal time, not solar time; a solar day is 24 hours. C) It is just an urban geek myth; the day really is 24 hours long. D) The original definition of the hour was off, and with more accurate atomic clocks we now realize the real day is this length.

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

When a baseball player hits a ball with a 1000-N force, the ball exerts a force on the bat of

A. more than 1000 N. B. 1000 N. C. less than 1000 N. D. none of the above

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

Which of the following is a foreign substance that produces an immune response?

A) an abzyme B) an antibody C) an antigen D) none of these

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

The North Atlantic gyre rotates counterclockwise.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences