Separation of para and ortho water
Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 07:10
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —Not all water is equal—at least not at the molecular level. There are two versions of the water molecule, para and ortho water, in which the spin states of the hydrogen nuclei are different. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, German researchers have now reported the successful separation of the two forms.