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Our planet differs from all other objects in our solar system in having both abundant HOH and a temperature very close to its phase triple point, so that it can exist abundantly in all three states, as a gas, vapor, as a liquid, water, and as a solid, ice.
Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Hay, W.W. (2016). HOH—The Keystone of Earth’s Climate
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In: Experimenting on a Small Planet. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27404-1_17
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