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From: stolfi@jumbo.dec.com (Jorge Stolfi)
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Subject: Re: Strange results in Nature article
Summary: Read the polywater story
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Date: 2 Aug 88 20:28:07 GMT
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Doug Gwyn writes:

    I seem to recall that "polywater" was also verified by other labs.

Indeed, for a couple of years at least a few hundred scientists all
around the world worked on polywater, and published papers on it,
before this mysterious and wonderful new kind of water turned out
to be a mixture of roughly equal parts of dissolved silica, sweat,
and wishful thinking.

"Polywater!" by Felix Franks tells in great detail this embarassing
chapter in the story of chemistry.  Before you give too much credence
to Benaviste's claims, you should read this little book.

                Jorge Stolfi @ DEC Systems Research Center
                stolfi@src.dec.com, ...!decwrl!stolfi