Water, being so plentiful , I always assumed was a pretty average kind of thing. Wet, clear, essential to life, etc.
But from a chemist's point of view, it turns out to be a nightmare of contradictions and anomalies, the kind of thing Mulder & Scully would have loved. This is one of the reasons so much rubbishy nonsense is marketed to those living the new age California lifestyle.
A chemist writes:
"...we start with the atom, and then go on to the rules governing the kinds of structural units that can be made from them. We are taught early on to predict the properties of matter from these geometric arrangements.
And then we come to H2O, and are shocked to find that many of these predictions are way off, and that water (and by implication, life itself) should not even exist on our planet!
We soon learn that this tiny combination of three nuclei and ten electrons possesses special properties that make it unique among the more than 15 million chemical species we presently know..."
http://www.chem1.com/acad/sci/aboutwater.html
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