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Science 15 January 1971:
Vol. 171. no. 3967, pp. 167 - 170
DOI: 10.1126/science.171.3967.167
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"Polywater": Evidence from Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis (ESCA) of a Complex Salt Mixture

R. E. Davis 1, D. L. Rousseau 2, and R. D. Board 3

1 Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
2 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
3 Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, California 94303

The ESCA spectra of "polywater" show that this anomalous, high-density, viscous, nonvolatile material contains high concentrations of sodium, potassium, sulfate, chloride, nitrate, borates, silicates, and carbon-oxygen compounds with trace amounts of other impurities but very little water. On the basis of this evidence, in conjunction with reported spectroscopic and analytical experiments, it is very unlikely that a polymerized form of water has been discovered.

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