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Supercooled Water

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RE: Water

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Elusive forms of water found?
Two long sought-after phases of ultra-cold water may have been trapped between crystals of ice.
Researchers in India and Italy say they have seen two types of liquid water that have long been suspected to exist below water's normal freezing point.

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Water vapour detected on distant planet
Scientists have found clear evidence that water vapour exists in the atmospheres of giant, hot planets around other stars.

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University of Hawaii researchers will expand investigations and education on the origin, history and distribution of water and its relationship to life in the universe under a new multimillion-dollar NASA astrobiology grant.
The grants average $7 million, but UH astronomer Karen Meech, principal investigator, said her team is hoping to get $8 million over the next five years.
Her research team was one of 10 selected across the country for NASA Astrobiology Institute grants.

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Title: Formation of hydrogen peroxide and water from the reaction of cold hydrogen atoms with solid oxygen at 10K
Authors: N.Miyauchi, H.Hidaka, T.Chigai, A.Nagaoka, N.Watanabe, A.Kouchi

The reactions of cold H atoms with solid O2 molecules were investigated at 10 K. The formation of H2O2 and H2O has been confirmed by in-situ infrared spectroscopy. We found that the reaction proceeds very efficiently and obtained the effective reaction rates. This is the first clear experimental evidence of the formation of water molecules under conditions mimicking those found in cold interstellar molecular clouds. Based on the experimental results, we discuss the reaction mechanism and astrophysical implications.

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Burning water and other myths
Have you heard the one about the water-powered car? If not, don't worry the story will come round again. And again. Crusaders against pseudoscience can rant and rave as much as they like, but in the end they might as well accept that the myth of water as a fuel is never going to go away.
Its latest manifestation comes from Pennsylvania, where a former broadcast executive named John Kanzius claims to have found a way to turn salt water into a fuel. Expose it to a radiofrequency field, he says, and the water burns. There are videos to prove it, and scientists and engineers have apparently verified the result.

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An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century.
John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.

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