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Science 21 November 1969:
Vol. 166. no. 3908, pp. 1000 - 1002
DOI: 10.1126/science.166.3908.1000
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Structure of "Polywater"

Jerry Donohue 1

1 Department of Chemistry and Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104

A structure for "polywater" is proposed. It consists of hydrogen-bonded clusters of water molecules lying at the vertices of rhombic dodecahedra. This structure contains features which are less unattractive than those which are part of several earlier models.


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