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The Current Understanding of the Properties of Liquid Water: A Possible Alternative Solution

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Based on information extracted from the published literature, we analyze the current state of knowledge on the properties of liquid water. There is a discrepancy between the efforts made and the results achieved. There is still no common model and clear prospects. While searching for an optimal solution to the problem, we propose to use the gas–solid-state Frenkel approach, which takes the interconversion of molecules and ions into account. It is demonstrated that this model can be used to provide a uniform and consistent description of the most important parameters of liquid water such as dielectric constant, evaporation enthalpy, self-diffusion coefficient, viscosity, and thermal conductivity.

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Vasin, A.A., Volkov, A.A. The Current Understanding of the Properties of Liquid Water: A Possible Alternative Solution. BIOPHYSICS 66, 709–715 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350921050262

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