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Researchers have made the first direct observation of atomic motion in liquid water molecules that have been excited with laser light. Their results reveal effects that could underpin the microscopic origin of water’s strange properties.
Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Researchers have made the first direct observation of atomic motion in liquid water molecules that have been excited with laser light. Their results reveal effects that could underpin the microscopic origin of water’s strange properties. Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

1 posted on 08/29/2021 8:40:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Water also has an unusually high surface tension, allowing insects to walk on its surface, and a large capacity to store heat, keeping ocean temperatures stable.

It also acts as a global heatsink that evens out climate variability.

3 posted on 08/29/2021 8:46:24 PM PDT by LVS1
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To: SunkenCiv

Reminds me of when a conference of environmental activists a few years ago passed a resolution calling for a ban on the powerful industrial solvent Dihydrogen monoxide. And their type has the gall to try and educate us about “the science”.


4 posted on 08/29/2021 8:48:21 PM PDT by katana
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To: SunkenCiv

I feel like drinking a large glass of ice cold quantum tugs.


5 posted on 08/29/2021 8:50:40 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: SunkenCiv

Reminds of a guy, in Germany I think, that studied the properties of water in nature. Primarily it’s various vortices and such. Came up with some very interesting devices. Can’t recall his name.


7 posted on 08/29/2021 9:04:33 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: SunkenCiv

11 posted on 08/30/2021 7:06:57 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: SunkenCiv

A rub and a tug.


12 posted on 08/30/2021 7:10:41 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Time flies like an arrow... Fruit flies like a banana )
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To: SunkenCiv

Big deal....A couple of water molecules fell in love...


15 posted on 08/30/2021 10:57:23 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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