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Anomalous water: polywater or impurities?

OCT 01, 1970
Marian S. Rothenberg

A year ago last June the results of University of Maryland spectroscopist Ellis Lippincott and his coworkers at the National Bureau of Standards seemed to indicate that anomalous water, first studied in the Soviet Union, was a new compound of formula (H2O). Since then “polywater” and Lippincott’s assertions about it have been vigorously attacked with a variety of experimental, theoretical and linguistic techniques.

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