Interestingly, cohesion itself is caused by electric fields between water molecules due to their polarity (uneven distribution of charge, oxygen is electron-greedy). Much like a capacitor, separating the molecules (plates of the capacitor in the analogy) requires work which gets stored in the electric field between them.
Interestingly, cohesion itself is caused by electric fields between water molecules due to their polarity (uneven distribution of charge, oxygen is electron-greedy). Much like a capacitor, separating the molecules (plates of the capacitor in the analogy) requires work which gets stored in the electric field between them.