Role of Water for Life

The behavior of benzoic acid in polyethylene inspired me to reflect on why water is a unique molecule that all living organisms depend upon. From properties of DNA in aqueous solution a seemingly counter-intuitive conjecture emerges: water is needed for the creation of certain dry low-dielectric nm-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bengt Nordén
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: World Scientific Publishing 2019-06-01
Series:Molecular Frontiers Journal
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Online Access:http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/S2529732519400017