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Science 2 March 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5816, pp. 1228 - 1229
DOI: 10.1126/science.1140758
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Perspectives

CHEMISTRY:
Water from First Principles

Anthony J. Stone

It has been hard to reproduce some of the properties of water starting only with the basic laws of physics. A description of water derived entirely from theory now succeeds in this task.

The author is with the University Chemical Laboratory, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK. E-mail: ajs1{at}cam.ac.uk

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