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The structure of liquid water

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When ice melts, the regular tetrahedral lattice is broken, but substantial portions of it remain, especially at low temperatures.

In liquid water, flickering clusters of molecules are held together by hydrogen bonds that continually break and re-form.

In this schematic “motion picture,” successive frames represent changes occurring in picoseconds (10-12 s).
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