Adding soap to water disrupts the hydrogen bonding between water molecules. A water strider is standing on the surface of a dish of water. What is most likely to happen if a drop of dish soap is added to the water?

Water’s hydrogen bonds create surface tension, which supports a water strider on the surface. Soap disrupts those bonds and lowers the surface tension, so the water may no longer support the strider and it will be unable to remain on the surface. Choice C describes this effect.

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