Scientists create 'dry water'

[didymus]

The Telegraph:

Scientists create 'dry water’

Scientists believe dry water could be used to combat global warming by soaking up and trapping the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
Tests show that it is more than three times better at absorbing carbon dioxide than ordinary water.
Dry water may also prove useful for storing methane and expanding the energy source potential of the natural gas.

Dr Ben Carter, from the University of Liverpool, presented his research on dry water at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston.
He said: ‘‘There’s nothing else quite like it. Hopefully, we may see dry water making waves in the future.’’

Another application demonstrated by Dr Carter’s team was using dry water as a catalyst to speed up reactions between hydrogen and maleic acid.
This produces succinic acid, a key raw material widely used to make drugs, food ingredients, and consumer products.
Usually hydrogen and maleic acid have to be stirred together to make succinic acid. But this is not necessary when using dry water particles containing maleic acid, making the process greener and more energy efficient.

Sounds interesting, but what if too much CO2 gets absorbed?

 

[DaveBj]

I saw a box of that in Walmart the other day. Dry Water–to get a cup of water, just add a cup of water

DaveBj

 

[MugenOne]

Water, the universal solvent has many interesting properties. It could be liquid, solid, gas, and crystal (rock). When we talk about solid water, we generally talk about water in ice form. However, under extreme pressure, water becomes rock solid like granite. It is water that you can’t drink, eat, or taste. It’s just rock.

 

[Monte_RCMS]

Here’s another shocking thing: for most substances, when you freeze them, they contract. Water expands, instead of contracting.

 

[DaveBj]

Here’s another shocking thing: for most substances, when you freeze them, they contract. Water expands, instead of contracting.

Yeah, just imagine what the world would be like if water contracted when it froze. All the water would be locked in ice at the bottoms of the oceans, with a thin skim of liquid on the surface. Dry land would be mostly desert…no life anywhere. I’m thinkin’…Designer?

DaveBj

 

[Sonic]

Water, the universal solvent has many interesting properties. It could be liquid, solid, gas, and crystal (rock). When we talk about solid water, we generally talk about water in ice form. However, under extreme pressure, water becomes rock solid like granite. It is water that you can’t drink, eat, or taste. It’s just rock.

Here’s another shocking thing: for most substances, when you freeze them, they contract. Water expands, instead of contracting.

Very interesting.

 

[NEWCATHOLICJEFF]

Yeah, just imagine what the world would be like if water contracted when it froze. All the water would be locked in ice at the bottoms of the oceans, with a thin skim of liquid on the surface. Dry land would be mostly desert…no life anywhere. I’m thinkin’…Designer?

DaveBj

Great Point…

 

[TMC]

Makes me think of Vonnegut’s “Ice 9”.