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Why does water have high cohesion?

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Because if the hydrogen
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Mercury exhibits more cohesion than adhesion with glass. Water, for example, is strongly cohesive as each molecule may make four hydrogen bonds to other water molecules in a tetrahedral configuration. This results in a relatively strong Coulomb force between molecules.

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