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Spectra Suggest Anomalous Water is a Stable Polymer of H2O

SEP 01, 1969
Marian S. Rothenberg

Anomalous water, first discovered by Boris V. Deryagin and coworkers at the Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry in Moscow, is a polymer, according to a group from the National Bureau of Standards and the University of Maryland. The experimenters, Ellis Lippincott, Robert Stromberg, Warren Grant and Gerald Cessac, believe that the substance they have produced in capillaries from distilled water is not H2O but rather a polymer whose formula is (H2O)n.

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