You wouldn’t expect to learn much about the properties of water by watching a square dance. But think again. Following the caller’s lead, the dancers meet, separate, weave, and swing in a perfectly fluid manner.
Confining water molecules in nanometer-size pores has provided new evidence that, in addition to its many other oddities, H2O may exist in two distinct liquid phases at ultralow temperatures.
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