polywater

[ pol-ee-waw-ter, -wot-er ]

nounChemistry.

a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.

Origin of polywater

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First recorded in 1965–70; poly(meric) + water

Words Nearby polywater

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How to use polywater in a sentence

From the beginning, however, there were doubters, and as proponents of polywater failed more and more … in their attempts to produce convincingly large quantities of it, the doubters began to have their innings.
50 years ago, scientists poked holes in the existence of polywater | Erin Garcia de Jesus | January 22, 2021 | Science News

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