I love how weird water is. And the ultra-weird behavior of monolayers of water in tiny cavities is relevant to #geology, #biology, and (maybe) future battery tech.
"Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that water in a one-molecule layer acts like neither a liquid nor a solid, and that it becomes highly conductive at high pressures"
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-phases-of-water-detected
@allochthonous I love the idea that water is stretched so in aquamarines that it's in a quantum state. Mind-blowing.
@agterrane that sounds intriguing… do you have any more info?
I googled aquamarine and quantum. When I first found out, I did this google in google scholar. I recently read that ssome researchers found this quality in stones they pickup at a swap meet! Heh. @allochthonous