You bathe in it, drink it, and drown in it. It has always been there, so you think you know everything about it. But do you? Probably not, considering that water continues to baffle even leading scientists.
According to an article published in the American Institute of Physics Bulletin in 2003, Prof Pablo Debenedetti and Eugene Stanley write that the water on earth is always in a chemical cycle, meaning that no drop has ever left the atmosphere chemically.
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