If the covalent bonds that hold water together is just electrons in superposition, how is it so stable?
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Hydrogen *really* wants to have a second electron to fill its outer shell. Oxygen *really* wants to have two electrons to fill its outer shell. They’re both extremely reactive, they release a lot of energy by forming those bonds (the combined molecule is a much lower total energy state than the individual atoms). Breaking those bonds takes a correspondingly large amount of energy, which makes them stable…they’re really hard to break.
Think about it as if you gave two anchor points on the molecule. Its more stable than a single one., you will need more energy to break both bounds.
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