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The History of Chemistry

174: Just Add Water

Jun 20, 2025 · 27 min · Episode 174 · 19.5 MB
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Water, the most important chemical for us, deserves its own episode describing the history of how chemists understand it. We start with pre-Enlightenment views of water as an element, then as a compound, then how electricity affected our understanding, then with dissolved salts, the crystal structure of ice, water's actual molecular structure, and how hydrogen bonding affects it.

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