Water Purification And The Supercooling Process

While researching texts written about different types of water, the history of water purification, and the supercooling process, one could find different types of articles and videos that explained everything very thoroughly. All of the authors and websites had given a much better idea of the topic of supercooling. To fully understand the supercooling one must understand different types of waters. The purpose for this paper is to understand the water types, the history of water purification, and the topic of supercooling. To accomplish this goal, one would first have to understand the different water types. There are five different types of water: purified, spring, mineral, sparkling, and artesian water. The texts used to find the definitions were “Bottledwater.org” and “Dictionary.com.” The first of the five types of water is purified water. Purified water is water that was mechanically filtered or processed to abolish impurities and make it suitable to …show more content…
Supercooling is when liquids do not freeze even below their freezing point. If there is any movement while in the process it could cause the crystallization process. Also if any water molecules come in contact with any possible ice impurities it could cause the crystallization process. When the temperature of water drops below to 32℉, water should freeze. A water molecule of water contains two atoms of hydrogen and one containing oxygen. Oxygen is a lot heavier than hydrogen so it provides around 89% of the weight of a molecule. The three physical states of water depend upon the motion of the water molecules. When water is still liquid the molecules are able to move because they have enough heat. The solid water has slowed down due to the loss of heat so the water molecules move a lot slower. Now that they move slowly they have a strong attraction to bind the molecules together and that causes the ice to keep its state/shape.