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Water molecules are bipolar, a bit like a bar magnet. For this reason they form non-covalent bonds with other molecules. This makes both the breaking up and making of strong covalent chemical bonds easier. Water is not only a fluid in the meaning that things float in it. Water also increases the chemical turnover and this is important for biological processes where different molecule needsmolecules need to find each other.

The bipolarity of water helps make the right amino acids find their place along an RNA molecule, simply by facilitating more tests per millisecond until the right one comes along and sticks. Methane, for example, is not a bipolar molecule. It does not facilitate chemical recombinations asin the way water does. Life would have a hard time to originate and survive in liquid methane. There are of course other bipolar volatile molecules than water.

I don't really know what I'm talking about here, but I heard someone who seems to do so... And animations like this help my impression that bipolarity is important in order to make the right stuff come together sooner rather than later.

Water molecules are bipolar, a bit like a bar magnet. For this reason they form non-covalent bonds with other molecules. This makes both the breaking up and making of strong covalent chemical bonds easier. Water is not only a fluid in the meaning that things float in it. Water also increases the chemical turnover and this is important for biological processes where different molecule needs to find each other.

The bipolarity of water helps make the right amino acids find their place along an RNA molecule, simply by facilitating more tests per millisecond until the right one comes along and sticks. Methane, for example, is not a bipolar molecule. It does not facilitate chemical recombinations as water does. Life would have a hard time to originate and survive in liquid methane. There are of course other bipolar molecules than water.

I don't really know what I'm talking about here, but I heard someone who seems to do so... And animations like this help my impression that bipolarity is important in order to make the right stuff come together sooner rather than later.

Water molecules are bipolar, a bit like a bar magnet. For this reason they form non-covalent bonds with other molecules. This makes both the breaking up and making of strong covalent chemical bonds easier. Water is not only a fluid in the meaning that things float in it. Water also increases the chemical turnover and this is important for biological processes where different molecules need to find each other.

The bipolarity of water helps make the right amino acids find their place along an RNA molecule, simply by facilitating more tests per millisecond until the right one comes along and sticks. Methane, for example, is not a bipolar molecule. It does not facilitate chemical recombinations in the way water does. Life would have a hard time to originate and survive in liquid methane. There are of course other bipolar volatile molecules than water.

I don't really know what I'm talking about here, but I heard someone who seems to do so... And animations like this help my impression that bipolarity is important in order to make the right stuff come together sooner rather than later.

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Water molecules are bipolar, a bit like a bar magnet. For this reason they form non-covalent bonds with other molecules. This makes both the breaking up and making of strong covalent chemical bonds easier. Water is not only a fluid in the meaning that things float in it. Water also increases the chemical turnover and this is important for biological processes where different molecule needs to find each other.

The bipolarity of water helps make the right amino acids find their place along an RNA molecule, simply by facilitating more tests per millisecond until the right one comes along and sticks. Methane, for example, is not a bipolar molecule. It does not facilitate chemical recombinations as water does. Life would have a hard time to originate and survive in liquid methane. There are of course other bipolar molecules than water.

I don't really know what I'm talking about here, but I heard someone who seems to do so... And animations like this help my impression that bipolarity is important in order to make the right stuff come together sooner rather than later.