DUMAS, in his well-known memoir on the gravimetric composition of water, which every student is taught, and rightly so, to regard as one of the classics of chemistry, states that of all analyses ...

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For the first time, scientists from Switzerland have separated the two less-known forms of water and proved that molecules of H2O undergo different chemical activities. People are familiar with the ...

Astronomers studying the formation of a distant star have discovered a cloud of water in space. The water, which is both regular water as we know it from Earth, as well as heavy water – water where ...

An isotope of a chemical element contains the same number of protons in the center of its atom, but when compared to another atom, the number of neutrons is different. Regarding water, some hydrogen ...

Because Uranus and Neptune are so far away, scientists only have educated guesses about the combination of ices and gases that make up these ice giants. While the general understanding is that these ...

In the warm, dusty disk called d203-506 around a young star in the constellation Orion, oceans’ worth of water is being destroyed and replenished every month, new observations from the James Webb ...

THE editor of these “Classics of Scientific Method” suggests that “a reader who takes up a volume of the series, dealing with a branch of science of which he is ignorant, will be able, without further ...

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