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eppur_se_muova

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2. Well, they would have to be highly specialized textbooks ... no change in Chem 101 at all.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Jan 16, 2024, 10:24 AM

Jan 2024

The topics they are examining are fairly esoteric, though they have (as the article suggests) potentially wide-ranging implications for such things as the role of evaporation in climate modeling.

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Water molecule discovery will force textbooks to be rewritten [View all] Judi Lynn Jan 2024 OP

This is a pretty big claim. Water has been subject to modeling in literally millions of settings. NNadir Jan 2024 #1

Well, they would have to be highly specialized textbooks ... no change in Chem 101 at all. eppur_se_muova Jan 2024 #2

What I love about science. It evolves. It admits that it got it wrong and announces it freely and it corrects. marble falls Jan 2024 #3