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If you could watch an individual water molecule, about once in 10 hours you'… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Nature is fine-tuned so that, in standard conditions, one in 10… | |
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How does electrical current move through water? Unless it's really pure wa… | |
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@johncarlosbaez I thought the electrical conductivity of water was due to disso… | |
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@spmatich - You're right, pure water conducts electricity much worse than w… | |
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Very often a hydronium ion H₃O⁺ attaches itself to another water molecule, … | |
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Often a hydronium ion H₃O⁺ attaches itself to *three* other water molecules… | |
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A lone proton in water can attract a lot of water molecules and form a variety … | |
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For more on the complex chemistry of water, check out my blog article!(6/n, n =… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Just learned that light makes water evaporate https://www.pnas.… | |
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@fink - wow! One cool idea, not proved yet, is that the effect could be import… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Fascinating thread ... have been delving back to memories of va… | |
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@RobertJackson58585858 - I'm trying to give lessons with all the fun stuff … | |
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@johncarlosbaez Water is indeed weird AF. | |
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@enoch_exe_inc @johncarlosbaez water is nuts. Does anything else have these wei… | |
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@kitten_tech - I don't know anything else like water. Its charge asymmetr… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Unusually rich distribution of intermolecular vibrational poten… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Here you say Manfred Eigen has nothing to do with eigenvectors,… | |
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@raph - it was a joke, which I was tempted to repeat here, but I was afraid thi… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Why you should use the hair dryer whilst in the bath | |
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@johncarlosbaez That should of course read "shouldn't and not should&q… | |
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@rmathematicus - I assumed you were being sarcastic. | |
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@johncarlosbaez Yes. I agree with that. So many things to explain about water. … | |
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@johncarlosbaez I had never seen that interesting. | |
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@johncarlosbaez that was quite unexpected. From my middle school education I co… | |
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Nice questions, @leemph!1. " Does this enables, somehow, "protonic&q… | |
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@leemph -3. "Such structures that are then formed in water... are they vi… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Water is such a powerful solvent that it will dissolve itself! | |
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@goosey - most liquids can do that. 😉 | |
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@johncarlosbaez This is excellent. I love the illustrations so much! I have had… | |
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@stevegis_ssg - nice! Sounds like a fun course to teach. | |
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That's fascinating! And uh, also wrong.How does electrical current move thr… | |
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@cy - I should have said that by "water" I meant pure water. Even pu… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Can you weave stable isotopologues into this thread?For every 1… | |
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@atthenius - check out Wikipedia on the reduced rate of autoionization for D₂… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @kitten_tech @enoch_exe_inc The fact that water is less dense a… | |
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@enoch_exe_inc @johncarlosbaez @kitten_tech I get why water is less dense as a … | |
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@MichaelPorter @enoch_exe_inc @kitten_tech - it should be fun to read about tho… | |
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@johncarlosbaez That picture of J. D. Bernal with the model of liquid water mol… | |
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@MichaelPorter - sounds like an incredibly cool guy. | |
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Alright, I didn't know that auto-ionization happened enough that it couldn&… | |
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@cy - yes, I'm gonna change my post now. | |
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@dduque @johncarlosbaez it’s a rounded number though (but yes, it’s still n… | |
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@dduque @johncarlosbaez now that i’m thinking more of this, pH is defined as … | |
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@xarvos - compare Toby Bartels' answer here:https://johncarlosbaez.wordpres… | |
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@johncarlosbaez And the move of Na+, Cl- are purely mechanical?. I mean they si… |