Month: September 2022

GERALD POLLACK SLIDE SHOW with references. https://lnkd.in/dCXyz2D View in LinkedIn

BEWARE THE CRAZY FRINGE, which is numerous and noisy, who have taken Pollack's work into the far yonder of quacky woo-woo-land, selling snake-oil nonsense. The science behind his work is solid. View in LinkedIn

"INSIDE THE CELL, the concentration of proteins in cytoplasm is between 170 to 300 mg/ml, which suggests that 7 to 9 shells of water (hydration shells) coat the available surfaces, corresponding to a distance of 4 to 5nm (nanometre, 10(-9) m) between the surfaces. A substantial fraction of the water is quite closely associated (at a distance of less than 0.5nm) with the proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides and assemblies of smaller molecules that make up an organism, and is essential for their functioning." http://www.i-sis.org.uk/WFMEZ.php View in LinkedIn

"SCHOOL CHILDREN learn that water has three phases: solid, liquid and vapor. In 2003 Pollack's group discovered a fourth phase. This phase occurs next to water-loving (hydrophilic) surfaces. It projects out from those surfaces by up to millions of molecular layers. And, its physical and chemical properties differ from those of ordinary liquid water." The new phase is Exclusion Zone crystalline water. https://lnkd.in/dKWdrys View in LinkedIn

THE EZ. "In the direct vicinity of hydrophilic gel-like materials a zone devoid of microscopic particles, called the exclusion zone (EZ) develops. The size of the EZ may reach several hundred microns, and under some circumstances, it may persist for relatively long times, up to days. The EZ has been shown to develop near the surface of a surprising variety of materials, ranging from myofibrils to hydrophilic lipid monolayers." https://lnkd.in/dNd72CT View in LinkedIn

ORDERED BULK WATER. "It has been proposed that EZ formation is caused by the emergence of a special phase of water (termed “EZ water”) that displays long-range ordering. This ordering is determined by periodically arranged alternating charges on the gel surface leading to the formation of ordered and undisturbed multilayers of water molecules which eventually arrange into a liquid crystalline phase." https://lnkd.in/dNd72CT View in LinkedIn

NEW FORM OF WATER. "Due to its peculiar properties EZ-water may be considered as a new allotropic form of water dynamically different from bulk liquid water."" " http://www.waterconf.org/upload/Voeikov_DelGiudice_%20Abstract%20WC2012edit.pdf/ View in LinkedIn

EXCLUSION ZONE (EZ) WATER. "However, near the sides of the beaker (and any hydrophilic surface submerged in the water), the water remains clear, free of any spheres. Why? Standard chemistry predicts an exclusion zone a few molecules thick might exist next to the glass, where polar water molecules stick to the distributed charges, but the exclusion zone Pollack observed was at least a quarter millimeter – several hundred thousand molecules thick." https://lnkd.in/dmZHjMr View in LinkedIn

CRYSTAL HONEYCOMB SHEET. "The honeycomb sheet is the EZ’s unitary structure. Sheets stack parallel to the material surface to build the EZ. The atomic structure of ice closely resembles the atomic structure of the exclusion zone. This similarity is beyond coincidence: one transforms readily into the other. The water droplet consists of an EZ shell that envelops bulk water. The two components have opposite charges. The bubble is structured like the droplet, except that it has a gaseous interior." https://lnkd.in/dKWdrys View in LinkedIn

EZ WATER PROPERTIES. "EZ water excludes almost everything, not only suspended particles but solutes as well. It exhibits an electromagnetic absorption peak at 270nm, and emits less infrared radiation than bulk water; it has higher viscosity and a higher index of refraction than bulk water. Most surprisingly, they discovered that the exclusion zone had a net negative charge, and that the water outside the zones had a low pH, indicating that protons had somehow been ejected from the EZ water." https://lnkd.in/dmZHjMr View in LinkedIn