Water isn’t normal
By 
Derek Lowe2024-03-25T14:00:00
Despite its familiarity, water is a chemical oddity. But that’s what makes it fascinating
A chemistry education gradually impresses on you what an odd substance water really is. It’s an irony of the universe that one of the most familiar substances in our world is simultaneously such a bizarre chemical outlier. Science shows us that our normal experience is only a tiny slice of reality, but thinking of water as the usual sort of liquid is one of our bigger misconceptions.