{"id":81699,"date":"2018-08-13T18:22:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T01:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/the-behavior-of-water-scientists-find-new-properties-of-h2o"},"modified":"2018-08-13T18:22:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T01:22:40","slug":"the-behavior-of-water-scientists-find-new-properties-of-h2o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/the-behavior-of-water-scientists-find-new-properties-of-h2o","title":{"rendered":"The behavior of water\u2014scientists find new properties of H2O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-behavior-of-water-scientists-find-new-properties-of-h2o2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists has uncovered new molecular properties of water\u2014a discovery of a phenomenon that had previously gone unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>Liquid water is known to be an excellent transporter of its own autoionization products; that is, the charged species obtained when a water molecule (H<sub>2<\/sub>O) is split into protons (H<sup>+) and hydroxide ions (OH<sup>\u2212<\/sup>). This remarkable property of water makes it a critical component in emerging electrochemical energy production and storage technologies such as fuel cells; indeed, life itself would not be possible if water did not possess this characteristic.<\/p>\n<p>Water is known to consist an intricate network of weak, directional interactions known as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hydrogen+bonds\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydrogen bonds<\/a>. For nearly a century, it was thought that the mechanisms by which water transports the H<sup>+<\/sup> and OH<sup>\u2212<\/sup> ions were mirror images of each other \u2013 identical in all ways except for directions of the hydrogen bonds involved in the process.<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-behavior-waterscientists-properties-h2o.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-behavior-waterscientists-properties-h2o.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists has uncovered new molecular properties of water\u2014a discovery of a phenomenon that had previously gone unnoticed. Liquid water is known to be an excellent transporter of its own autoionization products; that is, the charged species obtained when a water molecule (H2O) is split into protons (H+) and hydroxide ions (OH\u2212). This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}