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> water conducts protons at least 10 times more readily than typical conductive materials Protons, not photons!

• choonway 10y ago
  Shouldn't it be phonons?
  • drbw 10y ago
    No - they mean hydrogen ions, which are just bare protons.
    • dnautics 10y ago
      well no single proton actually makes it all the way across, so it is a phonon!
  • adrianN 10y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotthuss_mechanism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotthuss_mechanism
• saganus 10y ago
  Ah yes! you are right.