Michelle Francl wonders just how old the water in her tea is.
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22 September 2016
In the Thesis 'A brief history of water' (Nature Chemistry 8, 897–898; 2016), under the '380,000 years' subheading physical chemistry was incorrectly described as dominating for a period of "four hundred billion years", this should have been "four hundred million years". This error has been corrected after print 22 September 2016.
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I thank the faculty and students of the 2016 session of the Vatican Observatory Summer School on water in the Solar System.
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Francl, M. A brief history of water. Nature Chem 8, 897–898 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2620
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