Recent water myths

✍ Scribed by Soper, Alan K. (author)

• Book ID: 120453790
• Publisher: International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 371 KB
• Volume: 82
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-4545
• DOI: 10.1351/PAC-CON-09-12-16

✦ Synopsis

Recently, there have been a number of claims about the nature of water as a liquid that seem to contradict traditional views. The present paper takes a close look at two of these claims—namely, that water is not the tetrahedral network that it is traditionally regarded as but a chain-like liquid, and that water is intrinsically heterogeneous by nature—and attempts to make sense of them.