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Water and Biological Macromolecules pp 45–59Cite as

Thermodynamic and Dynamic Properties of Water

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Liquid water is the essential biological solvent for all life processes occurring in our planetary system. Human existence and most terrestrial life is confined to pressures around 0.1 MPa (≡ 1 bar). However, a large fraction of the biological production occurs in the oceans and thus at high pressures. The known biosphere on earth extends down into the abyssal depth of the oceanic trenches, where pressures up to 110 MPa at temperatures around 274 K are found.1,2

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Lüdemann, H.D. (1993). Thermodynamic and Dynamic Properties of Water. 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_2

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