Which mechanism causes increased water viscosity at low temperature?

💡 Explanation

Cooling increases hydrogen bonding among water molecules, because the lower kinetic energy allows hydrogen bond formation rather than being disrupted by molecular motion, therefore viscosity increases, rather than decreases as molecular motion slows.

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