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Just to clarify, this isn't a fourth state, this just seems to be a different liquid phase. Water has a hugely complicated phase diagram -- there's fifteen phas
by hugh3 15y ago
Just to clarify, this isn't a fourth state, this just seems to be a different liquid phase. Water has a hugely complicated phase diagram -- there's fifteen phases of water ice known experimentally and a few more predicted in theory.
I haven't been able to find the original paper (damn you discovery.com) so let me know if you find it.
- ggchappell 15y agoCouldn't find it either, but after looking around, it appears to me that the research discussed in the posted article is not so ground-breaking as the writer suggests (of course, it hardly ever is, y'know). Papers about liquid-liquid phase transitions in water go back a number of years. For example, here is a paper from 1997 that speculates about such a phase transition. http://iopscience.iop.org/0295-5075/42/2/161 http://iopscience.iop.org/0295-5075/42/2/161 And here is a recent paper about such a phase transition found in a computer model (which seems to be what the posted article is talking about). This paper is not by Kumar & Stanley, but it cites a number of papers of theirs. http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5295 http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5295