From:	Gurth <jweste%smtp@******.HZEELAND.NL>
Subject:	Polarity of water
Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 1994 10:22:21 +0100

>Time for more nit-picks. Pure, distilled water is not polar. The aqueus
>solution of various salts, minerals, pollutants, and other impurities in
>water /is/ polar.

Wrong. Water _is_ polar, all the time. Pure water is mostly H2O, but this
dissolves into H3O+ and OH-, a very (VERY) litle bit. Also, ever water
molecule has a + and a - side to it, which causes it to form H-bridges.
Without those bridges, the boiling point of water would be somewhere
around -150 degrees C, and that would mean no life as we know it could
exist...