Lots of good info, Thanks!
Mick53, I do appreciate the tip about dry water. I was aware of hard, soft water, heavy water, dry ice, and of course the old standard, wet water. Dry water, I didn’t know about till now.
Dry water does in fact exist and was first reported in the late 1960s, when it was patented as: ‘Predominantly aqueous compositions in a fluffy powdery form approximating powdered solids behaviour.’ The term denotes a powder, each grain of which is a micron-scale droplet of liquid water.
The droplets are formed by blending water (95 wt%) at high speed with a surface-adsorbed layer of silica nanoparticles (5 wt%), which have been pre-treated to make them intensely hydrophobic. Once coated, the droplets cannot flow back together, providing a powder that is effectively a form of high surface-area water.
It has a huge basket of applications and uses today.
Who knew.
RonR
