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Water Structure

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Water and Biological Macromolecules

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Water is the most abundant naturally occurring inorganic liquid, covering approximately two-thirds of the earth’s surface. As a liquid it occupies a position between the highly mobile structureless gases of the air and the highly structured immobile aggregates of the rocks and sediments of the earth’s surface: possessing properties of both motion and structure. Organic life has evolved from this aqueous environment and we need no more direct evidence of this than our dependence on water to carry out the basic molecular processes of life.

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Savage, H.F.J. (1993). Water Structure. In: Westhof, E. (eds) Water and Biological Macromolecules. Topics in Molecular and Structural Biology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12359-9_1

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