Talk:Water

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by BlueMoonset (talk) 15:44, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Ineligible; closed as unsuccessful

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Dangers of dihydrogen monoxide

• ... that in the spring of 1997, a 14 year old's school science fair project made an argument to ban a chemical compound named dihydrogen monoxide? Source: Diydrogen monoxide
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  • Comment: A fact about what started the whole thing.

Created by Chemification (talk). Self-nominated at 06:12, 2 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Water; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Sorry, Chemification, but the article is not new or recently five-times expanded or newly promoted to Good Article, so it's not eligible. Please see WP:DYK for eligibility requirements and other information about DYK. The article is currently 59,328 prose characters, so a five times expansion is not really possible, but if you get it to Good Article status, you may be able to renominate within a week of that promotion. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 06:36, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Triple point

“Because Earth's environment is relatively close to water's triple point, water exists on Earth as a solid, a liquid, and a gas.” This wording was debated a few years back. My first concern is that the typical visitor will not understand, or will misunderstand, what this means. I’m a physicist, and I think I know what they ‘’meant’’ to say. My second concern is that there is, to my knowledge, no place on Earth’s surface nor atmosphere with conditions near water’s triple point. The triple point is simultaneously a temperature of 0°C and pressure of 6 mbar. That corresponds to about 35 km elevation. A clearer wording would be to replace with “Earth’s surface temperature is close to that of water’s triple point”. Spiel496 (talk) 07:38, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Digital Worlds

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 21 January 2026 and 30 April 2026. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Tanna67 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Tanna67 (talk) 22:07, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

Dipole moment

Not my area of expertise. This article says water's dipole moment = 1.8546. But was reading on Chemical polarity which says water has different dipole moments for each phase of matter: Gas ≈ 1.86 debye (D), whereas liquid water (≈ 2.95 D) and ice (≈ 3.09 D). Because water is commonly understood in all of its three phases, I suggest that the three dipole moments all be listed. Or perhaps just put the figure for liquid phase, with a note about the phase. Russetburbank (talk) 01:06, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

The Global Median Boiling Point of Water is 99.3°C

Hate to be that guy but the page is "wrong". We all know that water boils at 100°C (212°F), but this is only at sea level. Because the vast majority of the human population lives above sea level, the median boiling point of water for humanity is actually 99.3°C (210.8°F). On the article it says the boiling point of water is like 99.97° C or something like that im on mobile not risking losing my draft, but i think that its oddly specific for it to be marked as that on the article. If its not exactly 100° C why bother even marking it at this arbitrary temperature for an elevation slightly above sea level, it just doesnt make sense and i think on the article it should provide you with the very commonly known temperature 100° C and the median boiling point of water which is more accurate for anybody reading the article. Claxxer (talk) 21:27, 6 June 2026 (UTC)