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SEVERAL real atmosphere and laboratory spectroscopic measurements1–3 suggest that water vapour near saturation contains polymeric molecules of which the concentration rises with increasing pressure and decreasing temperature. Existing PVT data which could support this conclusion lack the necessary accuracy for temperatures which are approaching atmospheric values and no related speed of sound measurements seem to be available for the conditions of interest.
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ASHWELL, G., EGGETT, P., EMERY, R. et al. Molecular Complexity of Water Vapour and the Speed of Sound. Nature 247, 196–197 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/247196a0
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