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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about water turning into a super acid under certain conditions
Links:
arxiv.org/pdf/2503.10849
science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adp8614
Other water videos:
youtu.be/mkyGK2FQs7c
youtu.be/U-hsN9VIgEY
youtu.be/s-Tk4JO4Ohc
youtu.be/upJxH1cTvVE
youtu.be/ZhHc3xDNfGw
#water #acid #science

0:00 Water turns out to be bizarre
1:30 What is superacidity?
3:20 What this study focused on
3:55 What happens to water in extreme conditions
5:05 Exact effects
6:20 This explains so much!
7:15 Supercritical water
9:08 Superionic ice water
11:05 Strange behavior at small scales
12:05 Viscosity anomalies
12:50 Implications and conclusions

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