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Over a year ago, I wrote here about ice. It has 16 known forms with different crystal geometries. The most common form on Earth, hexagonal ice I, is a surprisingly subtle blend of order and randomn…
In 2010, Evgenii Stoyanov, Irina Stoyanova and Christopher Reed used infrared spectroscopy to argue that a lone proton often attaches itself to 6 water molecules, forming H⁺(H₂O)₆, or H₁₃O₆⁺, like this: The ab initio atom-centered density-matrix propagation approach and the multistate empirical valence bond method have been employed to study the structure, dynamics, and rovibrational spectrum of a hydrated proton in the “magic” 21 water cluster. We live in a semi-barbaric age where science is probing the finest details of matter, space and time—but many of the discoveries, paid for by taxes levied on the hard-working poor, are snatched, hidden, and sold by profiteers.
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