COSEE Ocean Systems: News
"Dance restaurant" theory of water takes shape
Description: Com­pared to other li­quids, wa­ter has strange prop­er­ties that are still poorly un­der­stood. Re­cent work at the U.S. De­part­ment of En­er­gy's SLAC Na­tional Ac­cel­er­a­tor Lab­o­r­a­to­ry and un­ivers­i­ties in Swe­den and Ja­pan, though, is shed­ding new light on wa­ter's mo­lec­u­lar id­iosyn­crasies, of­fer­ing in­sight in­to its odd prop­er­ties. "Un­der­stand­ing these anoma­lies is very im­por­tant be­cause wa­ter is the ul­ti­mate ba­sis for our ex­is­tence," said SLAC sci­ent­ist An­ders Nils­son, who is lead­ing the ex­pe­ri­men­tal ef­forts. [Source: World Science]
URL: http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090814_water.htm
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Source: World Science
Publish Date: 8/14/2009
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