During the water cycle, liquid water from bodies, such as oceans, lakes, and streams, evaporates and moves upward in the atmosphere. In the atmosphere, the water vapor cools and condenses into precipitation. Then, the precipitation falls down onto the Earth, where it can flow downhill and back into water bodies to begin the cycle again. As the water flows downhill, minerals from rocks and soil can dissolve into the water and be carried into bodies of water. What property of water allows this to occur? *

intermolecular forces are the forces between molecules or particles.

there are two kinds of van der waals forces: weak london dispersion forces and stronger dipole-dipole forces.

in molecule of water there are dipole-dipole forces between negatively charged oxygen from one molecule of water and positively charger hydrogen of another molecule of water.

hydrogen bond is an electrostatic attraction between two polar groups that occurs when a hydrogen atom (h), covalently bound to a highly electronegative atom such as flourine (f), oxygen (o) and nitrogen (n) atoms.