Curtain may be closing on scientific water controversy

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X-ray scattering pattern of liquid water at room temperature and pressure obtained at Beamline 7.3.3 of the Advanced Light Source at the the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
X-ray scattering pattern of liquid water at room temperature and pressure obtained at Beamline 7.3.3 of the Advanced Light Source at the the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The curtain may be ringing down on a scientific controversy regarding the structure of water which arose two years ago. A new study by scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has provided further evidence that the traditional structure of liquid water, in which the average water molecule is hydrogen-bonded to approximately four other water molecules in a tetrahedral arrangement, is correct.


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