You Don't Understand Water (and Neither Does Anyone Else)

Water is weird… really weird. We’re gonna dive into the controversial chemistry and heated debates around the science of what gives water it’s super unusual properties, and maybe bust a popular water myth along the way.
#H2O #hydrogenbonding #dinosaurpee

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Credits:
Executive Producers:
Hilary Hudson

Producers:
Elaine Seward
Andrew Sobey
Darren Weaver

Writer/Host:
Alex Dainis, PhD

Scientific consultants:
Michelle Boucher, PhD
Xijie Wang, PhD
Emiliano Brini, PhD
Brianne Raccor, PhD


Sources:
How Water’s Properties Are Encoded in Its Molecular Structure and
Energies:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00259

Why is the maximum density of water at 4°C?
https://socratic.org/questions/why-is-the-maximum-density-of-water-at-4-c

A Two-State Picture of Water and the Funnel of Life:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.02757.pdf

What is life?-lecture: Lars G M Pettersson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ijHgccuhLE

Dipole-Dipole Force:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/introchem/chapter/dipole-dipole-force/#:~:text=The%20permanent%20dipole%20in%20water,slight%20negative%20charge%20(%CE%B4%2D).

Nuclear Quantum Effects in Sodium Hydroxide Solutions from Neural Network Molecular Dynamics Simulations:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b06433#:~:text=Nuclear%20quantum%20effects%20(NQEs)%20cause,bonding%20and%20proton%20transfer%20barriers

Nuclear quantum effects enter the mainstream:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41570-017-0109

Supercooled water reveals its secrets:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aar3575

Why Water Doesn’t Behave Like a “Normal” Liquid:
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/05/water-anomalies/

Direct Evidence in the Scattering Function for the Coexistence of Two Types of Local Structures in Liquid Water:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b11211

A mechanism for water splitting and oxygen production in photosynthesis:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28368386/

Origin of Water’s Strange Properties: Scientists Capture a “Quantum Tug” Between Neighboring Water Molecules:
https://scitechdaily.com/origin-of-waters-strange-properties-scientists-capture-a-quantum-tug-between-neighboring-water-molecules/

SLAC Megaelectronvolt Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Instrument: MeV-UED:
https://lcls.slac.stanford.edu/instruments/mev-ued#:~:text=The%20MeV%2DUED%20instrument%2C%20part,chemical%20and%20

Supercritical water anomalies in the vicinity of the Widom line:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-51843-0#:~:text=Usually%20the%20locus%20of%20specific,like%20behavior

Markov state model of the two-state behaviour of water:
https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/132025/1/132025.pdf

New study provides evidence for decades-old theory to explain the odd behaviors of water:
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/07/16/new-study-provides-evidence-decades-old-theory-explain-odd-behaviors-water

Second critical point in two realistic models of water:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abb9796

What is life?-lecture: Lars G M Pettersson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ijHgccuhLE

LDL vs HDL water:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh1Srcuh2nI

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