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Professor Pollack takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity that provides answers so simple that any curious person can understand. In conversational prose, Pollack lays a simple foundation for understanding how changes in water’s structure underlie most energetic transitions of form and motion on earth.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | vi | |
| Preface | xiii | |
| A Bestiary | xxii | |
| SECTION I: Water Riddles: Forging the Pathway | ||
| 1 | Surrounded by Mysteries | 3 |
| 2 | The Social Behavior of H2O | 13 |
| 3 | The Enigma of Interfacial Water | 25 |
| SECTION II: The Hidden Life of Water | ||
| 4 | A Fourth Phase of Water? | 45 |
| 5 | Batteries Made from Water | 71 |
| 6 | Charging the Water Battery | 85 |
| 7 | Water: The Engine of Nature | 103 |
| SECTION III: What Moves Water Moves the World | ||
| 8 | A Universal Attractor | 125 |
| 9 | Brown’s Dance: Energy-Driven Movements | 141 |
| 10 | Heat and Temperature: Throwing New Light on Thermal Darkness | 163 |
| 11 | Osmosis and Diffusion: They Don’t Just Happen | 183 |
| SECTION IV: Aqueous Forms in Nature | ||
| 12 | The Power of Protonated Water | 203 |
| 13 | Droplets and Bubbles: Siblings in the Water Family | 221 |
| 14 | Birth of a Bubble: A Passage to Maturity | 233 |
| 15 | Clouds from Coffee: The Remarkable Nature of Evaporation | 255 |
| 16 | Water Trampolines: Layering at the Water’s Surface | 281 |
| 17 | Warming up to Ice | 305 |
| SECTION V: Summing Up: Unlocking Earthly Mysteries | ||
| 18 | The Secret Rules of Nature | 329 |
| References | 342 | |
| Photo Credits | 349 | |
| Glossary | 350 | |
| Index | 353 | |
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