eli5 why is water not a gas if it’s made from hydrogen and oxygen?
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Water arranges its atoms in such a way as to be “polar” — the hydrogens form an plus-side and the oxygen forms the minus-side.
Because of this water as a molecule is very attracted to other water molecules. They tend to stick together. So water stays liquid much longer than non-polar molecules of the same size (like methane).
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