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Is All Water The Same?

Ben Greenfield Life

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The Origins of Ordered Water

All the water, essentially all the water inside your cell is near some charge protein or nucleic acid surface. So almost all the water is lined up so it's not like water in a glass where the water is bulk water that's random. Inside the cell, it doesn't really have to extend very far because the proteins are so close to each other. The space typically between two nearby proteins is the equivalent of about seven water molecules.

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