"Polywater": Evidence from Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis (ESCA) of a Complex Salt Mixture
Abstract
The ESCA spectra of "polywater" show that this anomalous, high-density, viscous, nonvolatile material contains high concentrations of sodium, potassium, sulfate, chloride, nitrate, borates, silicates, and carbon-oxygen compounds with trace amounts of other impurities but very little water. On the basis of this evidence, in conjunction with reported spectroscopic and analytical experiments, it is very unlikely that a polymerized form of water has been discovered.
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Volume 171 | Issue 3967
15 January 1971
15 January 1971
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- Polywater: Homely and Universal, Science, 172, 3979, (113-113), (1971)./doi/10.1126/science.172.3979.113-b
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