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Water — Molecular Structure & Bonding

By Adrien
A round water droplet on a leaf.

Image source: By Elucidate CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

If you've ever looked closely at a leaf or blade of grass after the rain, chances are, you've noticed that water tends to clump up in little spheres as shown above. Liquids are supposed to take on the shape of their container- how do these droplets of water stay together?

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