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June 25, 2014

Familiar yet strange: Water's 'split personality' revealed by computer model
Princeton NJ (SPX) Jun 25, 2014
Seemingly ordinary, water has quite puzzling behavior. Why, for example, does ice float when most liquids crystallize into dense solids that sink? Using a computer model to explore water as it freezes, a team at Princeton University has found that water's weird behaviors may arise from a sort of split personality: at very cold temperatures and above a certain pressure, water may spontaneously split into two liquid forms. The team's findings were reported in the journal Nature. "Our results s ... read more

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