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Grubb, Bakalar, Dan, and Mike take the dump truck down a path of ugly cars, pretty denim, and water. ...JUST water. The inorganic compound with the chemical formula H2O. The transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance. The main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms. The vital component for all known forms of life, despite not providing food energy or organic micronutrients. The thing where its chemical formula, H2O, indicates that each of its molecules contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms, connected by covalent bonds. The substance where hydrogen atoms are attached to the oxygen atom at an angle of 104.45°. You know it on Earth as a solid, a liquid, and a gas, in which it forms precipitation in the form of rain and aerosols in the form of fog. It pops up as clouds, which consist of suspended droplets of water and ice. When finely divided, crystalline ice may precipitate in the form of snow. You might see its gaseous states, steam or water vapor. It's what covers about 71% of the Earth's surface, with seas and oceans making up most of the water volume (about 96.5%). Small portions of water occur as groundwater (1.7%), in the glaciers and the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland (1.7%), and in the air as vapor, clouds (consisting of ice and liquid water suspended in air), and precipitation. Water moves continually through the water cycle of evaporation, transpiration (evapotranspiration), condensation, precipitation, and runoff, usually reaching the sea. It plays an important role in the world economy, since approximately 70% of the fresh water used by humans goes to agriculture. It's in your house right now; large quantities of water, ice, and steam are used for cooling and heating in industry and homes. Not just constructive, but destructive, it's an excellent solvent for a wide variety of substances, both mineral and organic; as such, it is widely used in industrial processes and in cooking and washing. Water in its many forms can be a key part of your daily entertainment if you love swimming, pleasure boating, boat racing, surfing, sport fishing, diving, ice skating, snowboarding, or skiing. It's water. Just. F***ing. Water.
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