The water: its properties and its biological importance

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Roberto Brenes-Esquivel
Dr. Roberto Brenes-Esquivel, UACA graduate medical surgeon. Head of the Chair of Physiology / Pathophysiology in the Medicine and Surgery career at this University. Assistant physician and coordinator of the Los Cipreses Campus medical clinic. Assistant doctor of the Emergency Service of the Santa Catalina Hospital Clinic. He concludes his Specialty in Occupational Medicine.
Luis Francisco Rojas-Solano
Dr. Luis Francisco Rojas-Solano. Biochemist of the Hematology Service of the San Juan de Dios Hospital. Professor at the UCR Faculty of Medicine for 25 years. Head of the Biochemistry Chair of the Medicine and Surgery career at UACA.

Abstract

 Water is an element of nature, which has been present on the Earth since 3000 million years ago. It is also the fundamental molecule for life. Despite being so simply composed, by three atoms only, it’s molecule has a somewhat strange behaviour. However, living beings are absolutely dependent upon it for their existence, and it is therefore called the fluid of life. This article comments on several important physicochemical properties of this fluid, which have been essential for the origin and sustainment of life in our planet.

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Brenes-EsquivelR., & Rojas-SolanoL. (2020). The water: its properties and its biological importance. Acta Académica, 37(Noviembre), 167-196. Retrieved from http://201.196.25.14/index.php/actas/article/view/407
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Vol 37 No Noviembre (2005)
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Acta Médica

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