Q is for Quantum Forces

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Uniqueness of H2O: It may be one of the simplest compounds around - so familiar that even non- scientists know its chemical formula - and one of the commonest, making up 70 per cent of the Earth's surface and about 80 per cent of all living things...but it's far from ordinary. Scientists are only now beginning to understand that the peculiar bonding structure that oxygen forms with hydrogen to form H2O may be responsible for some of water's most fascinating and remarkable properties.

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