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Science 3 April 1970:
Vol. 168. no. 3927, pp. 114 - 116
DOI: 10.1126/science.168.3927.114
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Polywater: An Attempt at Synthesis in a Gas Discharge

Algird G. Leiga 1, Dennis W. Vance 1, and Anthony T. Ward 1

1 Xerox Corporation, Research Laboratories, Rochester, New York

An attempt to produce polywater in a corona discharge in moist air was unsuccessful. However, the major product produced, nitric acid, has a midrange infrared spectrum which is strikingly similar to that reported for polywater. The Raman spectrum offers a better means of distinguishing between nitric acid and polywater than the infrared spectrum does.


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