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WELTANCHAUUNG. How we see the world depends on our mental lens. Once, the world was flat, and the sun circled the earth. More recently, our view of humble water has been challenged by new observations. When the ordinary becomes the extraordinary is when a paradigm shifts and we see with fresh eyes. "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." — Albert Einstein. View in LinkedIn

OSMOTIC PRESSURE. "The generally accepted view of osmotic pressure is that it is a colligative property, along with freezing point depression, boiling point elevation and vapour pressure lowering. These properties ideally depend on the concentration of dissolved solute molecules." https://lnkd.in/ea8gE-n View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT IN NATURE. A few visionary souls took a radical tack and proposed that water was neither common, nor just a solvent, but possessed very strange properties. This topic became a focal point for the crazy fringe, which certainly complicated matters. View in LinkedIn

MARTIN CHAPLIN BSc PhD CChem FRSC, Emeritus Professor of Applied Science at London South Bank University has written extensively on structured water and intracellular water, bringing a lot of clarity to a science that has a definite fringe element, but also has some profound, and at times, very controversial, science. I will be quoting him extensively in the next section. https://lnkd.in/eNkeENj View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT IN NATURE will focus for about three weeks in the very controversial topic of structured water. Textbooks tend to skim over intracellular water. Until quite recently, it was generally thought that water was just a common solvent for living things. View in LinkedIn

ICE PRESSURE. "This means that if you seal a full container of water and freeze it, the pressure on the sides of the container will be approximately 790 megapascals or 114,000 pounds per square inch...there’s no material on Earth capable of withstanding the pressures generated." https://lnkd.in/eb443BU View in LinkedIn

NASA TRACTOR BEAM DREAM. "Arx Pax thinks big when it comes to magnetic field technology. Not content with only creating the floating Hendo hoverboard, the California startup now is partnering with NASA on magnetic tractor beam technology." https://lnkd.in/e4DD8kV View in LinkedIn

ICE. "Water is at its densest at a temperature of approximately 4°C. If you cool it further, it begins to expand again, and once it has completely solidified into ice, it has increased in volume by about 9%. The pressure exerted by this expanding ice isn’t infinite but it is enormous. The bulk modulus of ice is around 8.8 x 109 pascals." https://lnkd.in/eb443BU View in LinkedIn

HOVERBOARD. "Thanks to a startup by the name of Hendo Hover, the hoverboard is finally a real thing that exists in the world that you and I inhabit." (By electromagnets on a superconductor). https://lnkd.in/e4DD8kV View in LinkedIn

WATER. It is one of the few substances whose solid state can float in its liquid state. It is rare to find a compound without a carbon to be liquid at room temperatures, but water is. It is also the universal solvent. https://lnkd.in/eXfhtm6 View in LinkedIn