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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Western scientists were frankly skeptical. Russian Chemists N. Fedyakin and Boris Deryagin claimed to have produced a mysterious new substance, a form of water that was so stable it boiled only at about 1,000°F., or five times the boiling temperature of natural water. It did not evaporate. It did not freeze-though at -40°F., with little or no expansion, it hardened into a glassy substance quite unlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unnatural Water | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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