Water

2010-11-17T13:17:16Z

061360057: Created page with '[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water#Health_and_pollution Water] H2O constitutes of two hydrogen atoms and a single oxygen atom. The basis of life, humans contain aro…'

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water#Health_and_pollution Water] H2O constitutes of two hydrogen atoms and a single oxygen atom.

The basis of life, humans contain around 40 liters of it.

Many diseases are associated with water, for example excess water ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperhydration hyperhydration]), not enough water (dehydration) and many microorganisms use water as a form of transport and spread through water. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera cholera]) 

For example Tchaikovsky is thought to have died of cholera: On 2 November 1893, he drank a glass of unboiled water. A few hours later, he had diarrhoea and started vomiting. The following day [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anuria anuria] occured. He lost consciousness and died on 6 November.  <ref>Acta Med Hist Adriat. 2010;8(1):145-72. The cause of P.I. Tchaikovsky's (1840-1893) death: cholera, suicide, or both? Kornhauser P. Skapinova 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.</ref>

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